Stanford CIS

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If the World Could Vote in November

The power of the American leader over the entire world population is quite stunning.  This unhappiness with how this power has been wielded leads some in Europe…

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Illegal Art?

My column for Findlaw yesterday discusses the global intellectual property activism of Superflex, a Danish art group.…

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Threats and Torture Officially Approved

Official guidelines for interrogation permitted abuse, according to an NBC News report: The [Geneva] conventions state specifically that while being interrogat…

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Election Over- Thank You for Playing

I just learned of the following incident from an online acquaintance who lives in Texas (no offense to Texas- this probably happens everywhere).   Her husband w…

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IP Enforcement Directive

Late April the European Council of Ministers has finally approved a Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights that will harmonize the remedie…

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browser-bundling the apple way

Switching to Mozilla Thunderbird as the main mail app on my iBook gave me some undesirable insights on how Apple tries to constrain choice in internet applicati…

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Opposition Filed

Third-year law student Sarah Givan drafted and filed Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendent's Motion for Summary Judgment and a Declaration in support of t…

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The Horror, The Horror

So what are the additional photos and videos Rumsfeld warned about on Friday?  Rumsfeld warned there are "a lot more photographs and videos" that have…