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Tony Bedel & Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidates ’18) interview Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. This discussion focuses on Europe’s new privacy regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the right to be forgotten. Under the GDPR companies around the world ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 31, ISSUE 2 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infringement by Pamela Samuelson Patent Nationally, Innovate Locally by Camilla A. Hrdy Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing’s Daraprim Price Increase by Michael A. Carrier, Nicole L. Levidow ...

Alexa – Can You Give Me Some Privacy? By: Erica Sun “Alexa, tell me what the weather is like for today.”[1] That is just one of the many possible commands to which Amazon Echo (“Echo”), through the Alexa Voice Service (“Alexa”), can respond.[2] Echo, which is equipped with seven microphones ...

Aniket Kesari[1] Amanda Maya[2] Chris Hoofnagle[3] Damon McCoy[4] Precis for Platform Law: Public and Private Regulation of Online Platforms April 2017 Keywords: Financially-motivated cybercrime, intermediary liability, CDA 230, deterrence by punishment, deterrence by denial, botnets, anti-counterfeiting, Rule 65, TRO, SDN, OFAC, hacking, DNS seizure Businesses that sell illegal pharmaceuticals, pirated ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) interviews Jamie Williams of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jamie discusses how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) interacts with the “Internet of Things,” and why the CFAA needs to be reformed.

Maurice E. Stucke & Ariel Ezrachi Personal digital assistants are alluring. Many of us already benefit from basic digital assistants such as Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Facebook’s M, and Amazon.com’s Alexa. They can read to our children, order beer and pizza, update us on traffic and news, and stump us with ...

Is the DTSA Toothless? Early DTSA cases and ex parte seizure By: Drew Schmidt Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (or “DTSA”) on April 27th, 2016, and the President signed it into law on May 11th, 2016. The bill experienced remarkable bipartisan support; the House passed it 410-2[1], while ...

Chante Westmoreland (J.D. Candidate ’18) interviews Associate Dean and Professor, Molly Van Houweling about her path to Berkeley Law and her recent piece, Authors Versus Owners.

By Amit Elazari Bar On, Adv., LL.M., Doctoral Law Student (J.S.D.), UC Berkeley School of Law, CTSP Fellow, Information School, UC Berkeley | March 22, 2017 In an economy where data is an emerging global currency, software vulnerabilities and security breaches are naturally a major area of concern. Data breaches’ ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) interviews Tom Counts (Partner, Paul Hastings) and Danielle Decker (Associate, Paul Hastings) after their BCLT Sponsored Lunch Talk. Tom and Danielle explain their client-centered approach for helping corporations protect trade secrets and working to remedy a possible leak in information.