Understanding Trademark Strength
Trademark strength, properly understood, refers to the scope of protection afforded a trademark by courts based on that mark’s inherent and acquired: (1) tenden…
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U.S. Border Agency Allows Others to Use Its Drones
"“The danger comes from dragnet surveillance,” is how Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, described it. He called himself mostly a…
Prof. Dave Opderbeck - Hearsay Culture - Show #187 - 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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Tools To Help You Hide Online Raise The Ire Of Advertisers
"That master list will be the Cookie Clearinghouse, which will be hosted at Stanford." * Date Published:07/02/2013 * Original Publication:NPR…
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Mozilla: Ad Networks Have No 'Constitutional Right' To Set Cookies
"McDonald said today that even if browsers block third-party cookies, companies can still serve online ads that don't rely on data collected across mor…
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Cookie Clearinghouse Director: 'Surveillance Sales' Will Have To Go
"The purpose of the Clearinghouse is not to list “every single site on the Internet,” McDonald said. “It’s too hard for people to individually decide which…
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ODNI Statements Continue to Mislead the Public
Senior U.S. officials continue to mislead the public about NSA surveillance. As the Washington Post reported today, "details that have emerged from the ex…
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Calling All Security Researchers for Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Auernheimer (weev)
We at the Center for Internet and Society are writing an amicus brief on Weev's behalf. Signatories must join by JULY 5th. Email me if you want to be a si…
What’s a Name Worth?: Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property
Full article available from Boston University Law Review. Despite considerable research suggesting that creators value attribution – that is, being named as th…
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OpEd-pocylpse on NSA's illegal and unwise surveillance
This morning, the NY Times posted my op-ed, co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Chris Sprigman, arguing that the two federal statutes the Obama Administratio…
U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World
U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World: An op ed in The Atlantic. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publica…
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The Criminal NSA
Jennifer Granick's opinion piece "The Criminal NSA" co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Christopher Sprigman has been published in the New York…