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Anonymous Plays Games With U.S. Sites
"Kerr's proposals have been picked up and refined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in what calls "Aaron's Law." The group'…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Will Disney Let You See This Movie?
Randy Moore’s dark drama Escape From Tomorrow premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival and quickly became one of the most buzzed-about oddities in Park…
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DVR Protections Invoked to Pause Associated Press
The AP's argument is "unfounded and dangerous to innovation," according to the brief authored by Julie Ahrens, of Stanford Law School's Center…
AP v. Meltwater Amicus Brief
The Fair Use Project filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge in AP v. Meltwater. * Publication Type:Litigat…
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The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
"The justification for creating temporary monopolies through patents and copyrights is that they encourage creative activity that would not otherwise take…
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Beta-testing the Konomark Project
Konomark is my project with CIS. In this post, I’m reporting the results of the first phase of my beta test. Konomark aims to encourage the sharing of copyrigh…
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Microsoft, Nokia, Black Rain: Intellectual Property
The Electronic Frontier Foundation hired Daniel Nazer as a staff attorney, the San Francisco-based digital rights advocacy group said in a statement. * Date P…
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Is That A Budweiser In Your Hand?: Product Placement, Booze, And Denzel Washington
""It's not something you're legally required to do," says Daniel Nazer, a resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project.…
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Call For Papers: Robotics and the Law Conference at Stanford Law School
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2013 The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars a…
Stopping SOPA - Copyright, Free Speech, and Popular Constitutionalism (Video)
CIS Speakers Series - November 15, 2012 During late 2011 and January 2012, millions of people protested the passage of the controversial copyright bill the Sto…
Intermediary Liability on the Internet - Ashley Hurst - Video
From Ashley Hurst's CIS Speaker Series talk on October 25, 2012. The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook and Google should be liable f…
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Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly
"Fair use is a "very gray area," says Julie Ahrens, who runs the Fair Use Project at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. &…