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Fair Use Project
The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in or…
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Who Will Regulate Robots?
As robots leave the factory and battlefield and enter our homes, hospitals, and skies, it is not clear who will come to regulate them. But we can begin to spot…
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The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing
Finnish organization Asymco publishes a series of graphics trending 35 years of computing technology. These are great graphics, identifying the disruptive disp…
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SOPA
The Public Policy Council of the ACM publishes its position on the SOPA and PIPA acts... taking a neutral stance explaining the issues from their technological…
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CIS Is Going Dark To Stop SOPA
A wave of opposition has crashed over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect I.P. Act (PIPA) based on the tremendous threat…
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Where Is Driverless Car Technology Now?
Cars can do all sorts of things automatically these days — parallel park, adjust headlights, and sense when you're tired and sound an alarm or vibrate the d…
Verizon Versus Google Wallet
Steven Cherry interviews Professor Barbara van Schewick about Verizon and Google Wallet. Transcripts of the interview at IEEE Spectrum.…
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Verizon Versus Google Wallet
Steven Cherry interviews Professor Barbara van Schewick about Verizon and Google Wallet. Transcripts of the interview can be found at the original publication…
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New Year, New Job
Happy new year, Friends. It is starting out to be a great 2012 for me. I've taken a position as General Counsel for Worldstar LLC and its flagship website…
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More State Developments on Autonomous Vehicles
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles has continued its rulemaking process for autonomous vehicles by announcing a public hearing on its draft regulations.…
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Will Facebook Get Serious About Online Privacy?
Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, is interviewed in this Marketplace interview about the main obligations Facebook needs to give it's customers i…
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F.T.C. Settles Privacy Issue At Facebook
Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with Somini Sengupta of the New York Times on the settlement between Facebook and the F.T.C. and how it was n…