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Putting the Public’s Interest Back Into the “Public Interest”
What’s your definition of the “public interest” when it comes to law and lawmaking? Is it a unitary concept, where we consider the good of society as a whole?…
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Obama Press Attacks Degrade the First Amendment In The Name of Security
Cross-posted from Forbes.com and co-authored by CIS Director of Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick. This post is co-authored with Morgan Weiland, a J.D.-Ph.D. ca…
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What Do You Do When You Know They're Watching?
The ongoing metadata/content debate finally seems to be winding down. In a blog post last week, Stanford researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler publish…
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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…