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Some Legal Considerations for the Driverless Car
CIS Resident Fellow Bryant Walker Smith talks with Patrick Egan sUAS News about some recent and upcoming events as well as examine the potential ramifications f…
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Google Girds for War
"Meanwhile, Google has funded a flurry of academic reports. Two published earlier this month — one by Hal Singer and Bob Litan, of Navigant Economics, and…
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How Tumblr Squashed the Trolls
[CIS Non-Residential Fellow Andrew] McLaughlin recently sat down with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg to talk about how the culture on Tumblr flows from company founder…
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The Lawyering Behind Facebook's IPO
Today, Facebook does its IPO - initial public offering. That means it begins offering shares of its stock for public trading on a stock exchange. Non-lawyers o…
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It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules
“This is essentially like letting consumers open the hoods of their own cars,” said Marcia Hofmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wh…
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Location Bill Would Slow Down Investigations, Officials Say
"Requiring law enforcement agents to secure a warrant based upon probable cause before obtaining geolocational information would allow legitimate investiga…
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Princess awards First Amendment lawyer "Defender of Internet" medal for SOPA fight
Constitutional law expert (and CIS Affiliate Scholar) Marvin Ammori, one of the First Amendment scholars along with Larry Tribe who explained how SOPA would vio…
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The Unintended Consequences of CISPA
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CISPA") is the latest example of a depressingly common situation in Washington DC -- well-meaning…
Daniel Margocsy - Hearsay Culture - Show #162 - KZSU-FM
Download audio from iTunes or download mp3 directly from CIS. A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The s…
Hamilton Bean - Hearsay Culture - Show #161 - KZSU-FM
Download audio from iTunes or download mp3 directly from CIS.A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The sh…
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The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
As Silicon Valley hones its political agenda, Marvin Ammori has become the go-to First Amendment guy--as evidenced in January, when he helped destroy PIPA and S…
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Seventh Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Film Police
With cell phone cameras everywhere, it has become common for members of the public to film encounters with the police. Whether the police are behaving professio…