Comments Pertaining to Internet Users' Expression and Information Rights
I write as the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. My work there focuses closely on the “Right to Be Fo…
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The “Right to Be Forgotten” and National Laws Under the GDPR
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the spring of 2018, bringing with it a newly codified version of the “Right to B…
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Crime, live on video: The beast Facebook can’t control
"Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, told Quartz Facebook’s turnaround time was actually quite…
Murder Video Again Raises Questions About How Facebook Handles Content
""Half the time it's, 'Oh no, Facebook didn't take something down, and we think that's terrible; they should have taken it down,'…
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Crime, live on video: The beast Facebook can’t control
Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, told Quartz Facebook’s turnaround time was actually quite fast.…
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Crowdsourced Lit Review: First Amendment Theory & Technology
Updated May 11, 2017. Keep your recommendations coming and I'll update periodically. Nailing down the definitive literature on First Amendment expressive f…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 3 of 3)
This is the last of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered the court’s conclusion that LiveJournal’s mo…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 2 of 3)
This is the second of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered (and found fault with) the court’s conclus…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 1 of 3)
The Ninth Circuit has decided Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal, and the outcome is in every respect bad news for LiveJournal. In some respects, it’s also bad f…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's March in Retrospect: Intermediary Liablity in Germany and Sweden, Requests to be De-Indexed in Europe, Fake News, and more
The March 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about Intermediary Liability in Germany and Sweden, a decision on a request to…
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Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban and Copyright Liability for Device Distributors
Amazon’s latest effort to mitigate IP infringement in its third-party seller program is a ban on the sale of streaming media devices (“Kodi boxes”) that promote…
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Leaks, geeks, & reporters
The recent spat of Washington D.C. leaks is "unusually active," according to FBI Director Mr. James Comey. Even if the leaks are as normal as they are…