Attached to this post are Powerpoint slides introducing intermediary liability basics. This particular deck comes from a great CIDE program in Mexico City. It is descended from others I’ve used over the years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley, presenting at conferences, and training junior lawyers at Google. Ancestral decks that evolved into this one go back to at least 2012. (Which might explain why I struggle with fonts whenever I update them.)
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Join Troy Sauro, Senior Privacy Counsel, Google Inc., for a discussion about his journey from being a litigation attorney in a big law firm to becoming a Google privacy counsel. Sponsored by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. CIS Director of Privacy Albert Gidari will moderate the discussion.

Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit – the largest and only city in Nunavut, Canada – has a colorful way of describing how sparsely populated the territory is. “The seals outnumber the people.” With a population of just over 35,000 people spread out over an arctic 1,750,000 square kilometers, Internet access is a challenge. In fact, according to Redfern, her most favorited tweet was that she couldn’t tweet… because the connection was too slow.

Cat falls off the sofa: Roflmao, epic fail! Dumbness prevails, deal with it! On 28 February, we are going to discuss memes and online humour at Digitaler Salon: What goes... MORE
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featuring Nate Hill, Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

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In this talk, Nate will give an overview of the programs at METRO/599, talk about the challenges associated with this organizational recalibration, seek input and ideas from the group, and extend an invitation to attendees to come take part in the fun.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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What does prediction by algorithms and AI mean? How does AI shift our understanding and production of knowledge? And how do algorithmic forecasts affect our relationship with the future? Elena... MORE
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Paper by Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand: “The spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially on social media, is a major societal challenge.

After the completion of the project Muskat which was funded by the BMBF a civil report by Marco Krüger was publically released online.download under: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/79947

Written by Liam Murphy and originally published in VoluntaryArts.org, this is a very important development, close to our CopyFair concerns.

The people behind Coops Vidriana wrote to us to let us know about their new gorgeous-looking magazine on Platform Cooperativism. It’s bilingual (German/English) and features a bunch of new articles and some drop-dead stunning design. Jana Pirlein has been kind enough to pen the following intro for the P2PF blog.

In his New Years Speech French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a new law project regarding the propagation of fake news online that shall be submitted until late 2018. This... MORE
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For the last 150,000 or so years of human evolution, not a whole lot changed. That is, until about 10,000 years ago, when in the blink of an eye we began organizing societies in very, very different ways. We went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to massive state societies; from having a relatively low ecological impact to devastating the natural environments we existed in; from relatively horizontal organization to extreme hierarchy and finely articulated division of labor.

Book edited by Btihaj Ajana: “…provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, a growing number of people are embracing this culture of quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their health and wellbeing.

Dans le cadre des Midi-conférences des jeunes chercheurs, le Centre de recherche en droit public est heureux de présenter la conférence de Grâce Perside Poeri, candidate au doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées à la Faculté des Arts et Sciences de l’Université de Montréal. Sa présentation s’intitule : « La problématique des enfants dits « microbes » en Côte d’Ivoire ».
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Chapter by Walter Castelnovo in Network, Smart and Open: “Citizens’ engagement and citizens’ participation are rapidly becoming catch-all concepts, buzzwords continuously recurring in public policy discourses, also due to the widespread diffusion and use of social media that are claimed to have the potential to increase citizens’ participation in public sector processes, including policy development and policy implementation

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Najnowszy przegląd linków o prawie autorskim udowadnia, że nie samą reformą prawa autorskiego powinniśmy się interesować. Parlament Europejski podjął kolejne, choć niedostateczne, kroki w celu zniesienia geoblockingu, Komisja Europejska planuje stworzyć listę stron www naruszających prawa własności intelektualnej, a zmiany w dyrektywie o reuse to tylko kwestia czasu. Poza tym prezentujemy ciekawe polskie kazusy prawne – prokuraturę mającą problemy z prawem autorskim oraz spór prawnoautorski wokół zmian na wystawie w Muzeum II Wojny Światowej. Zapraszamy do lektury.

CIHR Research Colloquium
Every Thursday, we meet in our Berlin office to discuss research projects from members of the CIHR network – our researchers, fellows and collaborators.
When? Every Thursday
Where? CIHR Berlin office, Werner-Voss Damm 54a, 12101 Berlin
How to participate? Send us an email at ue.rhicnull@eciffo
February 15: The Algorithm as your Boss? with Mirela Ivanova
From 4pm – 6pm

Paper by Faxi Yuan and Rui Liu at the 

Brilliant and practical way of cutting the developers out of lining their pockets once public planning permission is granted. This policy captures what is now unearned income in the hands of private developers for a key public good – to radically increase the affordability of housing. Take a look. Not too complicated. Grounded in Commons sense.