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Jane Pinckard studies the intersections of international digital youth culture. Her graduate work in Japanese history at the University of California, Berkeley,…
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Stanford talk next week -- on Versign and CyberSquatting
COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM 4:15PM, Wednesday, October 1, 2003 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 http://ee380.stanford.edu Topic:…
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Chris Sprigman on the Bret McDanel appeal in Findlaw
CIS Fellow Chris Sprigman has a commentary in Findlaw about the McDanel appeal being handled by Jennifer Granick. Sprigman explain why McDanel should never hav…
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Merc: MSN's free chat rooms to get ax
The San Jose Mercury News quotes Jennifer Granick in an article about Microsoft's decision to shut down its MSN chat rooms.…
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On-line Application of Vermont “harmful to minors” Law Violates First Amendment and Dormant Commerce Clause
American Booksellers addresses the ability of states to regulate on-line transmission of sexually explicit material to minors. The case raises the specific que…
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Fight Over the Applicability of GLBA Privacy Provisions to Lawyers to Continue
The Gramm-Leach Blilely Act (GLBA) was passed by Congress in November 1999. The Act encourages affiliations between financial institutions that would facilitate…
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Ninth Circuit Derives Personal Jurisdiction from Internet, Catalog Sales
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that L.L. Bean's Internet, catalog, and mail-order retail operations are sufficient to support personal jurisdic…
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Wine-by-Mail Ban Struck Down Under Dormant Commerce Clause
The Sixth Circuit considered whether the dormant Commerce Clause prevented the state of Michigan from treating in-state and out-of-state wineries differently wi…
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Ninth Circuit Rules Online Matchmaking Service Statutorily Immune for Identity Theft of TV Actress
In what it called a case of “cruel and sadistic identity theft,” the Ninth Circuit ruled that an online matchmaking service, Matchmaker.com was statutorily immu…
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Court Denies Verizon’s Motion to Quash RIAA’s Subpoena and Motion to Stay Pending Appeal.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) served two separate subpoenas, both under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), on Verizon Internet…
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Stay of New FCC Ownership Rules
The Prometheus Radio Project is an unincorporated organization whose goal is to provide support for the creation of low-power, non-commercial radio stations. P…
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: Stored Communications Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Provide Cause of Action for Plaintiff
The Ninth Circuit held that plaintiffs whose private e-mail messages were disclosed under a “patently unlawful” subpoena could sue the defendant who issued the…