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Online Classifieds: Who Is Responsible?
Senior research fellow Ryan Calo talks to American Public Media's Marketplace about the Communications Decency Act and website liability when it comes to us…
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Vernor v Autodesk: Software Ownership is Dead. Good Riddance.
My article for CNET this morning, “The end of software ownership…and why to smile,” looks at the important decision a few weeks ago in the Ninth Circuit copyrig…
Network Neutrality: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like
Paper presented at TPRC 2010. October 3, 2010. Why a non-discrimination rule banning only discrimination that harms competition or harms users is bad, and why w…
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…