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Cyberlaw Clinic
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A Victory for Software Preservation: DMCA Exemption Granted for SPN
November 2, 2018
Via the Cyberlaw Clinic Source: Pixabay By: Kendra Albert The Library of Congress handed a significant win to digital preservationists. On October 26, 2018,…
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Regulatory Hackers Aren’t Fixing Society. They’re Getting Rich
October 29, 2018
Via Wired.com Source: Pixabay By: Susan Crawford Recently I was invited to join a panel to discuss Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for…
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Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History
October 26, 2018
Via Motherboard.com Source: Pexels By: Ian Birnbaum and Matthew Gault A new ruling from the Librarian of Congress is good news for video game…
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Cities Are Teaming Up To Offer Broadband, and the FCC is Mad
October 3, 2018
Via Wired.com Source: Pixabay By: Susan Crawford This is a story that defies two strongly held beliefs. The first—embraced fervently by today’s FCC—is that the…
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Evaluating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights
October 1, 2018
Via Harvard Law Today By: Carolyn Schmitt From using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine credit scores to using AI to determine whether a defendant…
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Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic Backs Airbnb In Rowdy Guest Suit
October 1, 2018
Via Law360 By: Joyce Hanson Mason Kortz, Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic has urged the Ninth Circuit not to touch…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Represents Amicus Party in Net Neutrality Case
September 26, 2018
“DC Circ. Sets Net Neutrality Oral Arguments For February” Via Law360 By: Kelcee Griffis The D.C. Circuit has set oral arguments in the consolidated…
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Why An Army of Small Companies is Defending the Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
September 12, 2018
Via Wired.com Source: Pixabay Cyberlaw Clinical Professor of Law Susan Crawford writes about why small companies are supporting the T-Mobile/Sprint merger and what the…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Welcomes (Back) HLS Students, Preps for AY 2018-19
September 4, 2018
Via the Cyberlaw Clinic The Cyberlaw Clinic is pleased to welcome back returning 2Ls and 3Ls and welcome new 1Ls and LLMs to Cambridge…
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Via the Cyberlaw Clinic The Ninth Circuit issued an important decision last week in Rodriguez v. Swartz, allowing a Mexican mother to sue a…
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Of the four students whose work is represented in the Harvard Law Review’s April 2018 “Developments in the Law” issue, three are former students in the Cyberlaw Clinic and all have taken classes with our staff. The issue of the Law Review focuses on challenges posed by the vast amount of personal information that individuals now store digitally and with third party technology companies. The student authors, Audrey Adu-Appiah, Chloe Goodwin, Vinitra Rangan, and Ariel Teshuva, presented on their work to a packed room on Thursday, April 18, at the Law School, followed by a conversation moderated by Chris Bavitz
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Cyberlaw Clinic Year in Review: 2017
February 13, 2018
From Cyberlaw Clinic—We had two students enrolled in the Clinic during winter 2017, thirty-four in the spring, and 31 in the fall. Three summer interns ably helped to keep our docket of projects afloat during the summer months.
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The Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art
January 25, 2018
From Cyberlaw Clinic—Across the political spectrum, protest art — posters, songs, poems, memes, and more —inspires us, gives us a sense of community, and provides insight into how others think and feel about important and often controversial issues.
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Cyberlaw Clinic Assists with Amicus Effort in Byrd v. U.S.
January 19, 2018
From Cyberlaw Clinic—The case concerns the question of whether a person can assert Fourth Amendment protections in connection with a search of a rental car in which that person was not an authorized driver.
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From Harvard Law Today—The Berkman Klein Center’s Cyberlaw Clinic, which provides pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to the internet, technology and intellectual property, has written in support of a number of technology cases in recent weeks.
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From Cyberlaw Clinic—The brief, submitted on behalf of eighteen intellectual property law professors, supports petitioners’ request that the Supreme Court review a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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From the Cyberlaw Clinic—The Clinic’s brief on behalf of Special Rapporteur Cannataci supports neither party with respect to the question of domestic law at the heart of the case. But, it offers important context about Internet jurisdiction and places the right to privacy in its proper context against the backdrop of global human rights laws and norms.
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Software Preservation Comments Filed in 1201 Rulemaking
January 3, 2018
From Cyberlaw Clinic—The comment asks the Library of Congress to grant an exemption for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions to circumvent technology protection measures in order to preserve software and software-dependent materials.
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My Experiences in the Cyberlaw Clinic: Expectations Met and Exceeded
December 7, 2017
By Niklas Andree LL.M. '18—After working closely with supervisors at the beginning, students soon get to communicate with clients and later set up meetings and lead discussions with clients by themselves – valuable opportunities certainly not many internships or even first-year contracts would offer.
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Update on the 2018 Triennial 1201 Rule-Making
October 25, 2017
From Cyberlaw Clinic—The Clinic has submitted an anti-circumvention exemption request on behalf of the Software Preservation Network and a renewal request on behalf of a coalition of medical device patients and researchers for the Copyright Office’s seventh triennial rulemaking proceedings for anti-circumvention exemptions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Massachusetts Considers Digital Right to Repair
October 17, 2017
By Alex Noonan J.D. '19—The two proposed bills would require manufacturers of digital devices to provide diagnostic, repair, and service information to independent technicians and owners of devices, information that is currently only available to technicians selected and authorized by the manufacturers.