If US law enforcement officers want to access your private emails, they need to follow the requirements in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ECPA is an old and imperfect piece of legislation. Industry and civil society have long been pushing to update ECPA so that it is “technology...
The next meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Friday, February 14 at 11am in Room B13 at Stanford Law School.
Professor Dan Svantesson from Bond University in Australia will join us for an informal discussion about recent intermediary liability updates in...
The first meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Thursday, November 21 at 4pm in room Neukom 104 at Stanford Law School.
The SILLab is a project of the new intermediary liability focus area of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, whose...
Over at Just Security, I have a new post looking at the legal issues and new amici briefs in the Lavabit case. The case is really important because the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is in the process of deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that...
In recent months, some copyright holders, pharmaceutical companies, and state attorneys general have made allegations against Internet companies that help users find and share information. In short, they claim that because some users engage in copyright infringement...
Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Romney’s tuneless performance of America the Beautiful, Romney responded with an ad featuring a few seconds of Obama singing Al Green’s Let’s...
Next Friday, February 10, the Stanford Technology Law Review is holding its annual symposium, and this year's topic is an important one: First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age. Of the three panels, one is devoted to privacy and another to copyright. The third is devoted to a long, ambitious...
The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective. A few preliminaries: I’m responsible for the musings below, but I thank Robert Weisberg of Stanford Law School for taking...
A wave of opposition has crashed over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect I.P. Act (PIPA) based on the tremendous threat they pose to free speech and innovation online. It appears the House may be poised to abandon SOPA after the White House issued a statement making...