Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens and NFL, et al. - Amicus Brief
We filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit in support of the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL urging the Fourth Circuit to grant rehearing or rehearing en banc,…
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Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens and NFL, et al.
Plaintiff Frederick Bouchat claimed that the Baltimore Raven’s original logo, which the team used for its first three seasons, was an unauthorized copy of his d…
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Not a mythological character
Tina Dupuy: "The fact is: Obama is a good president. He’s a centrist who is somewhere between what mouth-foamers on either extreme say about him. He does l…
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Google's New Adwording Policy in Europe
As of yesterday, Google’s new policy concerning registration of trademarks as keywords for triggering contextual advertisement in many European countries went i…
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Craigslist Action On Adult Ads Is One Right Step Down A Long Road
Professor Ryan Calo, a research fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, is quoted on the efforts of 20 attorneys general to prevent the posting of…
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Will Robots Be 'Generative'?
I don’t know that generativity is a theory, strictly speaking. It’s more of a quality. (Specifically, five qualities.) The attendant theory, as I read it, is…
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Do we need a new generativity principle? – Comments on Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet (II)
Crossposted from Barbara van Schewick's website Netarchitecture.org. [This is the second of two posts on Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Interne…
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Generative End Hosts vs. Generative Networks? – Comments on Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet (I)
Crossposted from Barbara van Schewick's website Netarchitecture.org. I'm participating in an online symposium on Jonathan Zittrain's book The Futur…
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(Im)Perfect Enforcement
Prohibition wasn’t working. President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why. The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…
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Banking on Our Privacy
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…
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Craigslist Adult Ads Under Fire
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Michael Krasny of KQED Forum about the legality of Craigslist's adult…
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Paul Allen: Patent Troll or Patent Savior?
I don’t have a great deal to add to coverage of last week’s big patent story, which concerned the filing of a complaint by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ag…