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Surveillance cameras and the Boston Marathon bombing
""It's true that a great deal of our lives, particularly in public, are recorded today. But for the time being, it's fairly atomized," sa…
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Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?
"But Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, questioned whether it was "appropriate to have a federal legisla…
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Amazing Spider-Man 2: Paparazzi Using Spy Drones on Set?
"“In 2015, when the FAA is set to begin to relax its prohibition on use and integrate civilian use of drones, then I would think the first folks in the doo…
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Rise of robots means rethinking our laws
"Similarly compelling questions came from Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow focused on law and policy related to driverless cars like the one being de…
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Why Hollywood Studios Care About the NFL's Baltimore Ravens Logo
The MPAA says that if an artist suing the league is victorious at an appeals court, it could raise problems for movies containing logos, signs, billboards and o…
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If you hate red-light cameras, you’ll really hate speeding ticket robots
"“If anyone thinks it is a simple thing to do, to take a simple law [and convert it to machine-readable code], it is significantly more complicated than on…
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Robot car enthusiasts worry about new threat: lawyers
""Is it appropriate to have a federal legislative response to the liability question?" said Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Cente…
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Robot Wars: With The Technology In Place, Inventors Examine Legal Hurdles
"Ryan Calo of the University of Washington law school proposes that Congress allow the kind of selective immunity seen in firearm manufacturing - an immuni…
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Ravens Logo Appeal Threatens Filmmaker Rights, MPAA Says
Julie Ahrens, an attorney for the amici, noted Tuesday that the MPAA, the International Documentary Association and Film Independent aren't always necessari…
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Amid Calls for Reform, a Rare Trial of Hacking Law
""Because the language is vague and the way we've used computers has changed so much, there has been a great amount of litigation and dispute abou…
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EFF patent lawyer rates lawyer-rating patent ‘terrible’
""It's a terrible patent," says Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and its exemplary Patent Busting Projec…
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Washington House Panel Rejects Push For Passwords
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who studies emerging technologies, said companies have federal, state and common laws that protect propr…