Type: Brief Year: 2011 The Samuelson Clinic, on behalf of its client the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture, as well as the Alliance for Community Media, filed an […]
Samuelson Clinic Students File Amicus Brief on Behalf of the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture in the Viacom-YouTube Appeal in the Second Circuit
Is it in the Public Domain? A Handbook for Evaluating the Copyright Status of a Work Created in the United States Between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1977
Type: Clinical Project, Educational Tools Year: 2014 The Samuelson Clinic is excited to provide a handbook, “Is it in the Public Domain?,” and accompanying visuals. These educational tools help users to evaluate […]
California Supreme Court Ruled in Support of Immunity for Internet Distributors of Third Party Content
Type: Brief Year: 2006 The California Supreme Court ruled in Barrett v. Rosenthal that Section 230 of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 protects Internet publishers from being held liable […]
Cyberslapp Suits
Type: Testimony Year: 2002 A new form of lawsuit called a “cyberslapp” suit is threatening to overturn the promise of anonymous online speech and chill the freedom of expression that […]
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CHIPA)
Type: Brief Year: 2001 Students assisted the Consortium for School Networks and the International Society for Technology in Education with a public rulemaking implementing the Children’s Internet Protection Act. The […]
Prison Internet Mail
Type: Brief Year: 2001 Clinic students investigated the issue of California prison facilities banning inmate receipt of postal mail containing materials that had originated on the Internet. The case was […]
Clinic Filed Brief Supporting Immunity for Third Party Content
Type: Brief Year: 2004 The Samuelson Clinic, on behalf of a group of law professors with expertise in Internet law, submitted a brief to the California Supreme Court supporting reversal […]
Digital Grass Roots: Issue Advocacy in the Age of the Internet
Type: Book chapter Year: 2002 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Jerry Berman co-authored a chapter in the book The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values entitled “Digital Grass Roots: […]
Chamberlain v. Skylink in Federal Circuit
Type: Brief Year: 2004 In a case of first impression, the Federal Circuit rejected a consumer manufacturer of garage door openers’ efforts to employ a controversial section of the Digital […]
MGM v. Grokster in Ninth Circuit
Type: Brief Year: 2003 The Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of 40 intellectual property and technology law professors in MGM v. Grokster. The brief, which you can find […]