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Technology groups submit an emergency application to the Supreme Court to block Texas social media law HB 20

May 16, 2022

On May 11, 2022, the Fifth Circuit reinstated Texas state law HB 20 which allows private parties to sue tech platforms with 50M+ MAUs for their censorship of user-generated content based on “the viewpoint of a user or another person”. On May 13, technology lobbying groups NetChoice and the Computer...

Whose Copyright Office?

July 22, 2016

            In 2013, in a lecture at Columbia University, Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante announced an ambitious vision for the “Next Great Copyright Act.” That vision appropriately included a prominent role for the Copyright Office in helping policy makers work through some difficult issues...

Network Neutrality in Brazil: the recently enacted Presidential Decree consolidates meaningful rules

July 21, 2016

Amidst an economic and political turmoil, Brazil gave a significant step towards protection of network neutrality – the principle that keeps the Internet an open space, free from undue control by Internet service providers (ISPs). A Presidential Decree issued right before Dilma Rousseff was...

A Big Win in the Second Circuit for Vimeo and the DMCA Safe Harbors (Post 3 of 3)

June 20, 2016

What follows is the last of three posts on Capitol Records v. Vimeo. The first and second posts are here and here.

            Capitol Records' lawsuit against Vimeo, running in federal court since 2009, raised important and unsettled questions concerning the scope of safe harbors for online...

A Big Win in the Second Circuit for Vimeo and the DMCA Safe Harbors (Post 2 of 3)

June 17, 2016

What follows is the second of three posts on Capitol Records v. Vimeo. The first post is here.

            Capitol Records' lawsuit against Vimeo, running in federal court since 2009, raised important and unsettled questions concerning the scope of safe harbors for online intermediaries under the...