David Zweig - Hearsay Culture Show #219 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Britain has ambitious plan for driverless cars, but roadblocks remain
"“It’s an early statement by a national government that this is a policy priority," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate law professor at the Univer…
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Singapore’s Amended Anti-Piracy Copyright Act Enables Streamlined Site-Blocking
Singapore Parliament just passed an anti-piracy amendment to its Copyright Act, which aims to block “flagrantly infringing online location” such as The Pirate B…
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British Columbia Court of Appeal Refuses to Stay Enforcement in Equustek Solutions v. Google
As reported here, on June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered Google to block a website worldwide in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. Later,…
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Another Win for Wikimedia in Italy (and Europe)
As reported a few days ago, Italian courts have been very active in the last few weeks in reviewing liability of online intermediaries. Recently, another Italia…
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Reflections on the UK's DRIP Act
It’s not straightforward being a law enforcement officer in the UK in 2014. I often think of how different my working existence is to that of my great-grandfath…
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Jurisdiction over user data - what is the ideal solution to a very real world problem?
Over the past ten days, civil society has been having kittens over the UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, partly because of its extraterritorial e…
Julia Lane and Prof. Victoria Stodden - Hearsay Culture Show #218 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Intermediary Liability News from Italy: Courts block Mega and Mail.ru and Force YouTube to Proactively Monitor its Platform for Copyright Infringement
In the last few days, Italian courts have been busy tackling online copyright infringement and sanctioning platforms that allegedly facilitate infringement. A c…
Alex Wright - Hearsay Culture Show #217 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Sohu vs Toutiao: Chinese Mobile News App Sued by News Publishers for Copyright Infringement
Recently, a 120 million users mobile application, Toutiao (“headline” in Chinese), got on the nerves of traditional and Internet news publishers in China. In la…
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After The Freak-Out Over Facebook's Emotion Manipulation Study, What Happens Now?
"Ryan Calo, an academic at the University of Washington, who was writing about corporate lab rats even before it became a hot topic of conversation. “It’s…