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Google Hides News, Tricked by Fake Claims
"“If people can manipulate the gatekeepers to make important and lawful information disappear,” said Daphne Keller, a former Google lawyer and now a progra…
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Hearing on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 22: How Other Countries Are Handling Online Piracy - Statement of Daphne Keller
Professor Daphne Keller discussed intermediary liability laws, i.e. “the laws that define platforms responsibility for content posted by their users including t…
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The Music Industry Asks US Government to Make 'Unauthorized Streaming' a Felony
"“DNS blocks are easy to circumvent, because site operators can just register a different domain name in the same top level domain or move to a different t…
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The Trouble with Farming Out DMCA Takedown Notices to Bots
"The Recorder affiliate Legaltech News recently caught up with one of the forefront experts in both DMCA and automated notice sending, Annemarie Bridy, a U…
Remediating Social Media: Why Layers Still Matter for Internet Policy
Abstract 2017 was a bad year for the Internet. Journalists trying to get to the bottom of the Russian election meddling story discovered pathologies of the Int…
Copyright, The First Wave of Internet Censorship
When someone wants to remove speech from the Internet, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice and takedown process can provide the quickest path.…
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Problems with Filters in the European Commission's Platforms Proposal
This is the second of three posts about the Commission's Communication on Tackling Illegal Content Online. Post One addresses problems with relying on count…
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Counter-Notice Does Not Fix Over-Removal of Online Speech
This is the first of three posts about the Commission's Communication on Tackling Illegal Content Online. Post Two addresses problems with relying on filter…
U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study: Comments in Response to Second Notice of Inquiry
Abstract These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's November 8, 2016 Notice of Inquiry requesting additional pub…
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DMCA Counter-Notice: Does It Work to Correct Erroneous Takedowns?
This blog post is excerpted from our filing in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's 2016 Notice and Request for Public Comment on notice and takedown pra…
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It’s Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car)
"“This is a tremendously important improvement for consumer protection,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern Uni…
The music industry sings a lonely tune on Internet policy
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is at it again. In a joint open letter to Congress, it is leading a push by the music industry to rewrite I…