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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…
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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…
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A ruling against Google in Canada could affect free speech around the world
"But Canada’s Supreme Court has flipped this script with its globally-binding ruling. Daphne Keller, a director of Stanford University’s Center for Interne…
Making Google the Censor
Prime Minister Theresa May’s political fortunes may be waning in Britain, but her push to make internet companies police their users’ speech is alive and well.…
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…
Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN's Ambivalent Drift into Online Content Regulation
Abstract This article maps ICANN’s ambivalent drift into online content regulation through its contractual facilitation of a “trusted notifier” copyright enfor…
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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…
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More than 90 million people from 196 countries have flagged videos for YouTube
"Social media sites often walk a "delicate line" with moderation, said University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo. "The key thing to u…
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…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…