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Sexual Health and Wellness Ads Face Discrimination: Clinic Client CIJ Urges the FTC to Take Action
The Cyberlaw Clinic was privileged to represent the Center for Intimacy Justice in a letter of complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), highlighting concerns about the discriminatory treatment of social media advertisements for sexual health and wellness products targeted … Continue reading
Posted in Content Moderation, FTC, Gender Justice
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Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement
On March 31 and April 1, 2023, the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and the University of Iowa Innovation, Business, and Law Center hosted Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement. The symposium, planned by a number of current … Continue reading
Posted in FTC, HLS, JOLT, Legislation, Privacy
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Comment to the FTC on Transparency and Commercial Surveillance
On October 21, 2022, the Cyberlaw Clinic submitted a comment in response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission for feedback regarding an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to commercial surveillance and data privacy. The comment was submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Admin, Berkman Center, FTC, Privacy, Surveillance, Transparency
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230-esque Language in the USMCA: What Does It Mean for the US and Canada?
The Cyberlaw Clinic is excited to have collaborated with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) to release a report today on the impact of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on intermediary liability laws in North … Continue reading
Posted in CDA 230, Clinics, Defamation, Harmful speech, International, Legislation
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Clinic Supports Access Now to #KeepItOn in Indonesia
Last week, a court in Indonesia ruled that internet shutdowns which the government had imposed in Papua and West Papua in 2019 were illegal. The shutdowns were a part of the government’s strategy — which also included the use of … Continue reading
Posted in Amicus, International, Journalism, Tech and Human Rights
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Cyberlaw Clinic Style Guide
Since 2018, the Cyberlaw Clinic has had an internal style guide, to ensure consistency across our publications and assist students’ development of strong legal writing skills. As we drafted it, we made frequent reference to other style guides, including the … Continue reading
Posted in Admin, Clinic Staff, Clinics, Teaching
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Template License and Collaboration Agreements for AI Art
As the Cyberlaw Clinic has continued to deepen its practice in AI-generated art (and as AI art has increasingly cropped up in the news), it’s become clear that developers and artists are looking for guidance on how to handle rights … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Media
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Clinic Supports Pakistani NGO in Shaping New Data Protection Bill
This month, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication released a draft Personal Data Protection Bill for public comment. The bill has a wide scope, encompassing at a basic level the commercial usage of data from which an individual is … Continue reading
Posted in International, Legislation, Privacy
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Former Clinic Students Present Harvard Law Review Student Notes
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 … Continue reading
Posted in First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, HLS, Privacy
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First Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Unusual Copyright Case
On April 6, 2017, Cyberlaw Clinic students attended oral argument in a First Circuit copyright appeal involving a curious set of facts and legal issues. The case pitted Richard Goren, a Massachusetts attorney, against Xcentric Ventures, LLC, the owner of … Continue reading
Posted in CDA 230, Clinics, Copyright, Defamation, Media
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