Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags


"Musings of a techie lawyer."

Author: Wendy Seltzer is a research fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law, founder of the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics; is on the Citizen Media Law Project board of advisers and contributes to Citizen Media Law Project.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Internet Law • Media & Communications Law • University of Colorado • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags


  • Chilling Effects and Warming Effects

    For several years, the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse has cataloging the effects of legal threats on online expression and helping people to understand their rights. Amid all the chilling we continue to see, it’s welcome to…

  • Updates on the State of the Chill

    With the help of Chilling Effects’s terrific new research associate, Rebecca Schoff, we’ve been updating the “Weather Reports” blog to provide timely updates on the climate for free expression online. Recent posts check in with…

  • The Freedom to Innovate Without Permission

    In a speech this morning, widely heralded (and criticized) as a call for “network neutrality,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski: “Why has the Internet proved to be such a powerful engine for creativity, innovation, and economic…

  • Compelling Silliness: Register on Google Book Settlement

    The House Judiciary Committee has been scheduling some interesting hearings lately, including one next week on ICANN policies: The Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on Competition. Last week, they heard about Google…

  • Software Patent Research in Boulder

    I’ve moved to Boulder, Colorado, for a year with the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. I’m here to research software patents and user innovation (and no, innovative…

  • HADOPI: 3 Strikes Law Gets Its Own Strike

    The French Constitutional Court Wednesday struck down the provisions of the HADOPI “graduated sanction” law that would have required Internet service providers to cut off subscribers access (while continuing to take their payments) after repeat…

  • Don’t believe the anti-hype: Twitter succeeds by leaving room for failure

    Don’t believe the anti-hype around Twitter. Twitter hype punctured by study, reports the BBC on a recent Harvard B school finding: The median user has written only one tweet, and “the top 10% of prolific…

  • Theater of the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings

    Every three years, as mandated by Congress in Sec. 1201(a)(1)(C) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights conduct a rulemaking on exemptions from the DMCA’s prohibition on circumvention…

  • Susan Crawford to the White House on Ada Lovelace Day

    Just in time for Ada Lovelace Day comes the news that Susan Crawford is headed to the White House as special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy. Susan is one of…

  • Skype for Obama, from Cairo to Colorado

    I’m spending this election season in Cairo, Egypt, attending an ICANN meeting. Thanks to the Internet, that hasn’t stopped me from some final get-out-the-vote efforts. The time zones mesh up so that after meetings conclude…