Stanford CIS

Architecture and Public Policy

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Copyright in a Networked World

Last week the law school hosted the important conference "Intellectual Property in the International Arena: WIPO Comes to Stanford." Along with Richar…

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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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(Im)Perfect Enforcement

Prohibition wasn’t working.  President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why.  The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…

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Banking on Our Privacy

Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively.  Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…