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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…
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2014 Fastcase 50
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo named as one of 2014's Fastcase 50. http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50-winners-2014/ The Fastcase 50 for 2014 highlights e…
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Big Data and the Perceptual Divide
There's an old joke that goes like this: “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.” Like most ol…
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Net Neutrality and the First Amendment Rights of Users of Government-Run Networks
Yesterday my Elon Law colleague Enrique Armijo, who writes about the application of the First Amendment to new technologies, filed a comment in the FCC's ne…
Prof. David Schanzer - Hearsay Culture Show #216 - 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…