The World’s Most Popular Porn Site Is a Government Agent Now. Does It Matter?
On Monday, I published a two-part blog post about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement with Aylo, parent company of Pornhub. The FTC’s complaint allege…
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Promote the Progress, Legalize Learning
Learning—by brains or machines—is not a copyright-relevant act. This essay argues that treating training as presumptively infringing (rescued, sometimes, by fai…
The Evolution of Trust and Safety
This Article tells the inside story of the rise, spread, and evolution of trust and safety. We bring unique perspectives to this story. One of us (Citron) was o…
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Wrap Contracts Symposium, Part I: Ryan Calo
Cross-posted from ContractsProf Blog. This is the first in a series of posts on Nancy Kim's Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications (Oxford UP 2013).…
The FAA's Drone Privacy Plan: Actually Pretty Sensible
Cross-posted from Forbes. Thursday felt like drone day. The Federal Aviation Administration released both its roadmap (PDF) to integrate private drones into d…
How to Make Revenge Porn a Crime
During the course of a long-distance relationship, Holly Jacobs shared sexually explicit photos and videos with her ex-boyfriend. She trusted him to keep them p…
How to Copy Right
Cross-posted from Foreign Affairs. PATENT PROGRESS In their essay “Fake It Till You Make It” (July/August 2013), Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman urged…
A Stronger ‘Online Eraser' Law Would be a Mistake
Excited teenagers – in other words normal teenagers – have never been famous for consistently wise decisions, nor should they be. Trial and error is a critical…
We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
Cross-posted from Wired Opinion. Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net n…
Why Is Facebook Putting Teens at Risk?
Cross-posted from Bloomberg View. When Facebook Inc. recently lifted its restriction on public posts by teenagers, some privacy scholars applauded the move as…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror
Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular for making them possible. And if you were o…
Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented
Cross-posted from The Volokh Conspiracy. The automated motor vehicles that I have discussed this week are just one example of the remarkable technologies comin…
The Reasonable Self-Driving Car
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy. A common debate in many circles–including the comments on my posts here–is whether legal burdens, technical limitations, o…