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Web And Mobile Apps Come Under Review On New Stanford Site
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is interviewed by the Stanford Report on the launch of WhatApp?, a website that review…
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eBay's Win is a Matter of Economic Necessity
As the Wall Street Journal is already reporting, today eBay sustained an important win in its long-running dispute with Tiffany over counterfeit goods sold thro…
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'Harry Potter Lexicon' is focus Of Copyright Law And Fair Use Seminar At GVSU
Jule Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project, is mentioned as a speaker at the Copyright Law and Fair Use for Creative Artists Workshop: For RDR Boo…
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Turing Machines and Bilski
I received a link to a fascinating site (http://www.aturingmachine.com) and video of a working model of a Turing Machine (TM). Turing Machines are named for Bri…
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Rehberg v. Hodges: Constitutional Protection for Email Privacy
In Rehberg v. Hodges, EFF is asking the 11th Circuit to fix an earlier opinion wrongly suggesting that the contents of stored emails are not protected by the Fo…
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Google No Longer Will Collaborate With China
I have a comment on the NYT Room to Debate forum Google or China: Who Has More to Lose? praising Google's decision not to censor search results on .cn but r…
First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. The defense may go the way of its sibling, antitrust-based pat…
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Google v Everyone
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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Health Care
Well, I have little to add to the nattering nabobs out there, but I'm pleased we passed it. As to the post-script, I'm with E.J. : "By temperament…
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WhatApp.org: Now In Beta
There's an app for everything these days. But users often don't have a complete picture of the applications they download and use. Privacy policies are…
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Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think
Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably thi…