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Hacking Trademarks for Free Culture
Open source software projects and other collaborative communities are built on the principle that information should be shared and remixed. Some of these projec…
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Comments on Mozilla's Proposal
By Barbara van Schewick and Alec Schierenbeck. The FCC is currently considering adopting network neutrality rules based on a hybrid proposal that is based on t…
Lohan, Noriega video game lawsuits are a troubling sign for the arts
Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and actress Lindsay Lohan have at least one thing in common: Both recently filed high-profile lawsuits against video…
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REMINDER: We Robot abstracts due Nov. 3
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FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford center for internet and society, said that “this is an investigative technique that we haven…
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The Sky’s the Limit
"“We make this video viral because we’re projecting our fear of surveillance or the idea that these robotic systems are unnatural or creepy,” Asaro added.…
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Find Out Whether This Unkillable Tracker Is On Your Smartphone
"“The most objectionable part is that it’s a boneheaded technical design, no matter what you think about carrier selling information about you,” says Mayer…
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FBI Impersonated Seattle Times To Spy On Bomb-Threat Suspect
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, said the online stratagems are reminiscent of more commonly accepted police tactics…
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For journalists coming into US, policies border on the absurd
"Catherine Crump, Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law, agrees. "After the Suprem…
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Trade Secrecy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Secret Lawmaking Meets Criminalization
Trade secrecy, arguably the most active but least understood and studied of intellectual property's doctrines, is on the rise. Over the past two years, ther…
A Horse of a Different Color
Cross-posted from Slate. In the early days of dot-com, the law found the Internet unsettling. That a buyer in one location could access the website of a seller…
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The Future of Anonymity on the Internet Is Facebook Rooms
"“I think there’s definitely a pendulum swing, where we move and experiment with anonymity,” says Citron. “There’s certainly a destructive side to anonymit…