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CIS Is Going Dark To Stop SOPA
A wave of opposition has crashed over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect I.P. Act (PIPA) based on the tremendous threat…
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New Year, New Job
Happy new year, Friends. It is starting out to be a great 2012 for me. I've taken a position as General Counsel for Worldstar LLC and its flagship website…
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More State Developments on Autonomous Vehicles
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles has continued its rulemaking process for autonomous vehicles by announcing a public hearing on its draft regulations.…
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Hearsay Culture shows with David Perlmutter, Ethan Leib, Saul Levmore, Martha Nussbaum and Helen Nissenbaum posted
Happy new year! A hectic December has led me to the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, where I'll be discussing the Anti-Counterfeiting Tr…
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Vinton Cerf on Internet Access as a Human Right (Not)
The January 4, 2012 edition of the New York Times has an editorial by Vinton Cerf entitled "Internet Access Is Not a Human Right." He presents a ve…
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SOPA/PIPA Copyright Bills Also Target American Sites
Crossposted from Ammori.org. The tech and civil liberties communities have been fighting proposed copyright legislation. Critics have argued that the proposed…
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Is Verizon Wireless illegally blocking Google Wallet? It’s time for the FCC to investigate
The original post can be found on the netarchitecture.org website. Two weeks ago, various news outlets reported that Verizon Wireless’s new Galaxy Nexus phone,…
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Robot ethics book released by MIT Press
I am pleased to announce that our edited volume Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics has now been released by MIT Press. The preface a…
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My CIA briefing on robot ethics
From The Atlantic: Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield--but could they also be used to interrogate and torture suspects? This would avoid a serious…
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To Catch With A Predator
The Los Angeles Times quotes me over the weekend in its front page story about the use of a Predator B drone to catch a civilian suspect in North Dakota. In my…
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Controversial Copyright Bills Would Violate First Amendment--Letters to Congress by Laurence Tribe and Me
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's Blog Ammori.org. Today, both Professor Laurence Tribe and I submitted letters and legal memoranda to Congress explaining…
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A postscript to the 2010-2011 Patent False Marking Festival.
A tasty footnote to the 2010-2011 False Marking Litigation Festival: Last week I bought a Nylabone (R) chew toy for Henry. On the back is printed the patent cov…