Posted on January 25th, 2013 by Derek Bambauer
The lawsuit against scumbag Web site Texxxan.com has generated attention to the problem of revenge porn, and to the paucity of legal remedies available to victims of it. Danielle Citron has two excellent posts over at Concurring Opinions analyzing the relevant statutory block, 47 U.S.C. 230, and the few cases that cut through its immunity. [...]
8 Comments »
Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking
Posted on September 10th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I’m answering questions about Internet Law for the next hour or so at Lifehacker. Fire away!
4 Comments »
Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Music, Peer Production, RIAA, Social Networking
Posted on May 29th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Slashdot pointed me to a debate over the relative accuracy and comprehensiveness of TomTom‘s map data, versus that of OpenStreetMap. TomTom is a proprietary system; OpenStreetMap is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, and permits users to add data in wiki fashion. TomTom claims its maps are more comprehensive and reliable. An OSM supporter claims that [...]
Comments Off
Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Open Access, Peer Production, Scholarship, Software
Posted on May 28th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I encourage everyone to sign a petition that asks the administration of President Obama to mandate that publicly-funded scientific research results be available to the public, over the Internet. Here are details: Text: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: REQUIRE FREE ACCESS OVER THE INTERNET TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLES ARISING FROM TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH We believe [...]
Comments Off
Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Open Access, Peer Production, Scholarship
Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The RIAA’s Cary Sherman had a screed about the Stop Online Piracy and PROTECT IP Acts in the New York Times recently. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick brilliantly gutted it, and I’m not going to pile on – a tour de force requires no augmentation. What I want to suggest is that the recording industry – or, [...]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Copyright, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Filtering, First Amendment, Google, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Media, Music, Peer Production, Politics, RIAA, Scholarship, Software
Posted on December 14th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
America is moving to censor the Internet. The PROTECT IP and Stop Online Piracy Acts have received considerable attention in the legal and tech world; SOPA’s markup in the House occurs tomorrow. I’m not opposed to blacklisting Internet sites on principle; however, I think that thoughtful procedural protections are vital to doing so in a [...]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Media, Music, Peer Production, Politics, RIAA, Scholarship, Search Engines, Social Networking, Software, Trademarks
Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Mark Lemley has a smart editorial up at Law.com on the hearings at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Viacom v. YouTube. The question is, formally, one of interpreting Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512), and determining whether YouTube meets the statutory requirements for immunity from liability. But this [...]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Music, Peer Production, RIAA, Search Engines, Software, Video
Posted on October 2nd, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Thanks to Dan and the Prawfs crew for having me! Blogging here is a nice distraction from the Red Sox late-season collapse. I thought I’d start with a riddle: what do roller derby, windsurfing, SourceForge, and GalaxyZoo have in common? Last week, NYU Law School hosted Convening Cultural Commons, a two-day workshop intended to accelerate [...]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Law School, Open Access, Patents, Peer Production, Scholarship
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Eric Goldman points to a highly enjoyable filing by one David Stebbins against Google, claiming he has won an arbitration award of, wait for it, $500 billion. Even with the tax cuts still in effect, I assume that the government’s cut of this award will help the deficit a good deal. How did Stebbins win [...]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Blogging, civil procedure, Court Decisions, Google, Intermediaries, Peer Production, Search Engines, Video
Posted on July 20th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Oliver Day and I presented the idea behind our article The Hacker’s Aegis (now available from Emory Law Journal – the cite, for law nerds, is 60 Emory L.J. 1051 (2011)) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School yesterday. The Webcast of the talk should be available soon. We had [...]
Comments Off
Filed under: badware, Berkman, Computer crime, Copyright, Court Decisions, Law School, Microsoft, national security, Open Access, Patents, Peer Production, Scholarship, Security, Software