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How to Fight Revenge Porn
Cross-posted from The Atlantic Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many w…
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Judge Posner’s Surveillance Argument Would Not Withstand An Economic Analysis
Judge Richard Posner took the occasion of the Boston bombing to remind us of his view that privacy should lose out to other values. Privacy, argues Judge Posne…
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Trust us, we're the government - sharing evidence internationally
Cross-posted from www.katewestmoreland.wordpress.com It’s the nature of academic articles that by the time they’re published you’ve almost forgotten that you w…
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Second Circuit Victory for Richard Prince and Appropriation Art
Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited decision in favor of fair use in Cariou v. Prince. Reversing the district court’s finding of inf…
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A Big Week for News in Internet Policy
This has been a busy Internet law week. I'd like to sum up some of the more interesting developments: This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approve…
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CISPA 2.0 Likely Stalled in Senate
According to a US News report, a spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation suggests that the Senate will not take up CI…
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CISPA 2.0 Clears The House: Outcome Hazy
As expected, CISPA 2.0 passed the House of Representatives yesterday and the various privacy protections sought through amendments were dropped. Although much…
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Pain Rays and Robot Swarms: The Radical New War Games the DOD Plays
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. In the year 2025, a rogue state--long suspected of developing biological weapons--now seems intent on using them against U.S. a…
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Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
Cross posted from the Robotics and the Law blog. “One of the most significant obstacles to the proliferation of autonomous cars is the fact that they are illeg…
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"Brain Spyware"
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, now there’s spyware for your brain. Or, there could be. Researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a…
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Fair Use Project, International Documentary Association, MPAA, and Film Independent Ask Fourth Circuit to Recognize Creators’ Interest in Repurposing Copyrighted Material for Historical Use
Frederick Bouchat has been serially litigating against the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens organization for more than a decade. Bouchat continues to press his clai…
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Transparency, but what are we seeing?
Cross-posted from http://katewestmoreland.wordpress.com/ Now that Microsoft has come to the party and is publishing a regular transparency report, there is a m…