Stanford CIS

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U.S. v. Auernheimer

Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employ…

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Wikimedia v. NSA

Arguing that the information publicly available on the NSA's Upstream program, combined with an understanding of how the Internet works, means plaintiff Wik…

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Apple v. FBI

Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize d…

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Lang v. Morris

Sarah Morris is a well-known multimedia artist and filmmaker. In 2007, she debuted her "Origami" series, 24 paintings in which she reworked, redesigne…

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Associated Press v. Meltwater

Meltwater News ("Meltwater") is a search engine and research tool that allows users to search for and obtain information about news items that have be…

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Cariou v. Prince

Photographer Patrick Cariou sued artist Richard Prince for copyright infringement on the basis of Prince’s use, in works of collage art, of images of Rastafaria…

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Golan v. Holder

The FUP filed this suit on behalf of a University of Denver conductor and others, challenging Congress’s restoration of copyright to works that had entered the…

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Sony v. Tenenbaum

Joel Tenenbaum was a college student sued by a group of major record labels in its litigation campaign against file-sharers.  Tenenbaum was found liable for inf…