Water as a Public Good: The Status of Water Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Is water a "product" subject to the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)? I argue that it is not, because th…
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Could Europe’s Tough Privacy Protection Proposals Influence Washington, D.C.?
Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at the Center for Internet and Society, is mentioned in a Forbes article on online privacy harm: “Online pr…
Meaningful Participation in a Global Climate Regime
An effective climate regime must be global rather than merely international and must recognize the significant involvement of actors other than states. This Art…
Stakeholder Reaction to Emissions Trading in the United States, the European Union, and the Netherlands
As a contribution to the debate over market-based environmental regulation, this article examines the reaction of stakeholders to cap-and-trade programs propose…
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What does the Fox-Cablevision dispute have to do with Net Neutrality? Everything and nothing
When the only tool you have is a hammer, as the old cliché goes, everything looks like a nail. Net neutrality, as I first wrote in 2006, is a complicated issue…
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Recent Developments in Anti-Circumvention law, GPL Licensing and Adwords
There are some interesting developments in three areas I have been covering in this blog for some time now, all coming from foreign courts. Anti-Circumvention…
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When I Rise
When I Rise portrays the inspiring story of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted black mezzo-soprano who, as a music student at the University of Texas, found herself…
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One Cheer for Patent Trolls
"On the whole, the results certainly seem to suggest that patent trolls with software patents do very much view the system as a lottery ticket, and they…
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Robots: The Law
Ryan Calo is a senior research fellow at Stanford Law School who has specialized in robotics and the law. In his interview with the Robots podcast he discusses…
Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group - Amicus Brief
Amicus brief filed in the Third Circuit on behalf of Brave New Films urging affirmance of the district court’s finding of fair use and rejection of plaintiff’s…
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Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group, LLC, Craig Carton and Ray Rossi
Millennium Radio reproduced on its website a magazine photograph of two of its disc jockeys, Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, and invited listeners to submit humorou…
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Analysis of the "leaked" net neutrality bill from Rep. Waxman
My article for CNET News.com this morning analyzes the “leaked” net neutrality bill from Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. I…