"At ISP lobbyist behest, the FCC included language in its net neutrality repeal attempting to “pre-empt” (read: ban) states from protecting broadband consu…
On Sunday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822, the first state-level law that comprehensively restores all of the net neutrality…
On Sunday September 30, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822, the first state-level law that comprehensively restores all of the n…
"Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School, says the California bill is on solid legal ground and that California is within its legal rights…
"“If an agency wants to pre-empt states from regulating an industry, it has to have authority to regulate that industry,” says Ryan Singel, a fellow at Sta…
"“There’s a lot of confusion about why people care so much about what California is doing,” said Barbara van Schewick, director of the Center for Internet…
Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity: The Third Paradigm examines the long history of creativity, from cave art to digital remix, in order to demons…
We know that smart phones and other information technology are changing the way we live and the way we relate to other people, but could they actually be making…
Two important current trends in Internet law go together in ways that aren’t getting enough attention. They should, though, because the overlap is well on its w…
"“Governor Brown has a long history of vetoing legislation that you might think he'd totally support, including bills that exercise state power as a wa…
“Tool Without a Handle”: Tools and the Search for Meaning In a New York Times review of Edward Tenner’s book The Efficiency Paradox, Gal Beckerman observes th…
""Today was a landmark in the fight to preserve a free and open internet," supporter Barbara van Schewick, the director of Stanford Law School…