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US transitioning Internet DNS control
Washington insiders know the best time to release potentially controversial news is after 5PM on a Friday afternoon -- when most journalists likely are heading…
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Freedom of Linking in Europe?
Recently, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in Svensson et al v Retriever Sverige that links to authorized works freely available online do not infrin…
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Spain: YouTube Cannot be Enjoined to Prevent Future Copyright Infringing Uploads
YouTube achieved yet another big win in Spain last January when a court of appeals in Madrid found it not liable of copyright infringement. The case is Telecinc…
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Robotics and the New Cyberlaw
Cyberlaw is the study of the intersection between law and the Internet. It should come as no surprise, then, that the defining questions of cyberlaw grew out o…
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Third Annual Robotics and Law Conference “We Robot”
Michael Froomkin, Ian Kerr, and I, along with a wonderful program committee of law scholars and roboticists, have for three years now put on a conference around…
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Government Threats To The Internet: Commentary on the Drummond Talk
The Internet is under threat, mostly from governments. We need companies to help people stand up to government threats, but companies cannot solve the problems…
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Turkey Enlists Intermediaries to Censor and Surveil Internet Users
Despite fierce opposition from civil society and industry, the Turkish parliament recently amended Law no. 5651, entitled “Regulation of Publications on the Int…
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Meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab with Dan Svantesson
The next meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Friday, February 14 at 11am in Room B13 at Stanford Law School. Profess…
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Erecting a New Legal Edifice: Christopher Kuner on Transborder Data Flows
Few people personify the field they work in as much as Christopher Kuner. As a lawyer, European-American, academic and professor, and longtime leader of the ICC…
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Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB
Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent repo…
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CIS & The Day We Fight Back
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologicall…
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Reforming 702: Does NSA Minimize Cloud Files?
Yesterday, I wrote generally about the problems with section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). Today I focus on categories of information—including content—…