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EU Push to Filter 'Illegal' Content Raises Alarms in Silicon Valley
"“Lawyers should be emphatically paying attention,” said Andrew Bridges, who represents tech firms in copyright disputes at Fenwick & West. “I think th…
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3 Big Legal Department Takeaways From Google's Antitrust Penalty
"University of California, Hastings College of the Law professor Ben Depoorter said the European Commission’s massive penalty is a unique case for a narrow…
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The political fight behind Facebook and Google’s new terrorist content database
"“[The database] is definitely responsive to what’s going on in Europe,” says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, who specializ…
Regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy
Submission to the European Commission. Includes Supplemental response to “Should action taken by hosting service providers remain effective over time ("ta…
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Proposal to Extend Copyright Duration for Performances und Sound Recordings in Europe Criticized
As known to many, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA) added 20 years to the duration of copyrights. Writing for the majority in Eldred v. Ashcroft,…