Ruling On Redskins' Trademarks Carries Symbolic Weight
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six trademark registrations held by the Washington Redskins. Today's ruling determined the football…
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Hong Kong Government Introduces Copyright Bill Providing a “Safe Harbor” for OSPs for Copyright Infringement
Today, the Hong Kong Government introduced the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014 into the Legislative Council to revise Hong Kong’s copyright law so as to “keep p…
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Alleged Revenge Porn Webmaster Faces Trial in California
"“The law does not apply to him because he is not accused of posting nude photos intending to cause specific subjects emotional distress and knowing that t…
ECPA Limitations: Privacy Law and the Cloud
The era of cloud computing has introduced unprecedented computing power and convenience to the way we work and live. But the privacy laws that protect the conte…
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New Technologies, Court Decisions Muddying Copyright, E-Commerce Landscape
"In Garcia v. Google Inc., a 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel granted actress Cindy Garcia's request for a preliminary injunction requiring Google to take down…
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Net neutrality and the First Amendment: Who has the right to free speech?
"“These implications are most dangerous for — and indeed most likely to impact — smaller and marginalized speakers and listeners; those with the most contr…
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
"“It’s the fear of robots,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School who studies driverless cars. “…
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Supreme Court To Decide When A Facebook Death Threat Should Send You To Prison
"“To make a true threat, you don’t need to ever actually carry it out. You just need to terrify someone,” argues University of Maryland professor (and Forb…
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Silicon Valley embraces open source as a moneymaker
""Patents are so incompatible with the open source software philosophy," said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundat…
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Musings from CFP '14
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to muse conceptually at the 2014 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in Warrenton, VA. Kudos to co-chairs Nuala…
New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
Cross-posted from Wired. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant w…
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As a Stanford engineering student and lawyer, Jonathan Mayer discredits NSA claims
"Jonathan Mayer's education path is unusual: He has earned a Stanford law degree while working on his PhD in computer science. He did research with a f…