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Copyright law is facing its biggest challenge yet as it copes with technological development and an increasingly global information market. The advent of peer-t…
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
"Jennifer Granick was the first to admit that it’s difficult to know what reforms are necessary because as Schneier pointed out, it’s impossible to know wh…
"Aleecia M. McDonald, a privacy researcher and resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says web ads invisibly assign a unique numbe…
"“The FAA intends to announce a plan for commercial operators to seek certificates of authorization in September of 2015, but that does not mean that drone…
"“This use of license-plate scanning differs from the way police contemplate using drones, and in many ways it’s probably worse,” Calo said. “This is more…
"Each year at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, organized by the UC Berkeley School of Law and the George Washington University (GWU) School of Law, sch…
Cross-posted from EFF.
Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…
"This court has evolved to serve a very different role than when it began," said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer at the Stanford Center for Internet and So…
In two recent decisions concerning copyright’s fair use doctrine, the Second Circuit addressed the lawfulness of incorporating one creative work into a new one.…