December 18, 2017
News
Euro leaders urge Facebook, Google to scrub terrorist content
September 20, 2017
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to twoSee details
China's Latest Crackdown on Message Groups Chills WeChat Users
September 11, 2017
Self-censorship is kicking in fast on WeChat as China’s new rules on message groups casts a chill among the 963 million users of Tencent Holdings Ltd. ’s social network. FromSee details
New House Bill (Substitute FOSTA) Has More Promising Approach to Regulating Online Sex Trafficking
December 11, 2017
See Eric Goldman’s Technology and Marketing Blog .See details
Right to be forgotten and global delisting: some news from Spain
December 17, 2017
In a recent ruling, the Spanish Audiencia Nacional – the high court that referred the Google Spain case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – hasSee details
Entries
Albania Study on blocking, filtering and take-down of illegal Internet content
(prepared by Swiss Institute of Comparative Law for Council of Europe)
This is one of series of country reports prepared for the Council of Europe in 2015. Other countries' reports, and responses from national governments, are available here . The studiesSee details
Tommy Hilfiger v. Delta
Case C‑494/15
Although this is not an Internet case – it involves intellectual property rights in items sold at a market – the court discusses and applies injunction standards from the eCommerceSee details
American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., 545 U.S. 913 (2014)
holding that “Aereo publicly performs copyrighted works, in violation of the Copyright Act’s Transmit Clause, when it sells its subscribers a technologically complex service that allows them to watch televisionSee details
Topics
Copyright
As the Internet facilitates nearly costless and limitless reproduction of copyrighted works, policy makers and courts have struggled to find the right balance between competing goals. These include: 1) mitigatingSee details
Right to Be Forgotten
The expression "right to be forgotten" has been used to label a broad range of very different legal issues, from privacy claims requesting broadcasters and newspapers to remove news fromSee details