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New Cybersecurity Bill Available
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…
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How Copyright Law Censors Campaigns
Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Rom…
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Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
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Announcing Speaker Panel & Fundraiser for Without My Consent
Earlier this month, Without My Consent (my CIS fellow project) reached its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we're pleased to announce our first speaker p…
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The Humboldt Internet Law Clinic Launched
Anyone who has ever attended law school in the United States knows what legal clinics are about. In recent years, clinical work with students in law school sett…
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Announcing A Speaker Panel & Fundraiser for Without My Consent
My fellow project for CIS, Without My Consent, just reached the one-year anniversary of its June 2011 launch. We recently gained our 501(c)(3) status and are no…
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Amendments to California's Autonomous Driving Bill
California's autonomous driving bill (SB 1298) has undergone further amendment. Two observations: What's changed: The newest version takes an increment…
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Network Non-Discrimination and Quality of Service
Cross posted from Netarchitecture.org. Over the past ten years, the debate over “network neutrality” has remained one of the central debates in Internet policy…
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California should demand more from banks that handle taxpayers' money
Cross-posted Mercury News. California could improve economic development and save on debt service by diversifying and relocalizing its banking. As a major glob…
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Judge Alsup (ably) Explains It All To Us: Copyrightability of Certain Replicated Elements of the Java Application Programming Interface
Kudos to Judge Alsup for his order regarding copyrightability of software API's - for both for legal as well as technical explanations - in Oracle v Google…
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Jennifer Granick to Direct New Civil Liberties Initiative at Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
STANFORD, Calif., May 30, 2012— Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Jennifer Stisa Granick as Director of Civil Liberties at the Center for I…
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Planning for Autonomous Driving
In the United States over the next ten years, governments may spend some $1.5 trillion on their roadways, consumers may purchase vehicles worth nearly $3 trilli…