This is the last of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered the court’s conclusion that LiveJournal’s mo…
This is the second of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered (and found fault with) the court’s conclus…
The Ninth Circuit has decided Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal, and the outcome is in every respect bad news for LiveJournal. In some respects, it’s also bad f…
The March 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about Intermediary Liability in Germany and Sweden, a decision on a request to…
Amazon’s latest effort to mitigate IP infringement in its third-party seller program is a ban on the sale of streaming media devices (“Kodi boxes”) that promote…
The recent spat of Washington D.C. leaks is "unusually active," according to FBI Director Mr. James Comey. Even if the leaks are as normal as they are…
Imagine a world, not as distant as we might like to think, where our individual thought processes are aided and improved by technologies external to the biologi…
The WikiLeaks CIA release: When will we learn? This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Richard Forno, University…
The February 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, information about block…
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. This pos…
Late last month, I posted to SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article, “Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Conten…
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter…