After much deliberation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally approved an HTML5 standard for implementing DRM across all web browsers. The EFF has filed an appeal, citing serious concerns for users’ rights due to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause.

Introduced on May 31, 2017, New York Assembly Bill A08155, proposed to establish a right of publicity for both living and deceased individuals. It also proposed that an individual's name, voice, and likeness would be freely transferable, descendible personal property. In sum, the bill, which has not passed to date, would make the right of publicity a property right more than a privacy right.

Mugshot websites have been shaming people into paying hundreds of dollars to take down their arrest listings. However states have now taken matters into their own hands, imposing laws to protect innocent individuals from unjust reputational harm.

As the E.U. moves towards legislation supporting a rudimentary right of repair, questions regarding the duration and durability of copyright protections are naturally brought to the forefront of one's mind.

After three days of heated exchanges between Zillow, the EFF, and the creator behind McMansion Hell, the online housing giant backed down from its copyright infringement claims. The allegations were widely considered to be baseless.

Owing to a lack of access to traditional legal methods of recourse, smaller fashion labels have taken to social media to create a disincentive to copyright infringement.

Copyright laws in Australia have been criticized for their lack of fair use. After years of government reports recommending its implementation into law, no progress has been made. Wikimedia and a host of other organizations have now launched campaigns to educate the public about fair use in a nation desperately in need of copyright reform.

US Supreme Court rules that North Carolina's law barring individuals on the sex offender registry fro musing social media is unconstitutional, and that the Internet has become critical for civic engagement and participation in culture.

Are trademarks registered in the U.S. private speech? According to the Supreme Court, the answer is yes, trademarks are protected, private speech (insert cheering Redskins fans here).

The General Data Protection Regulation is set to replace Directive 95/46/EC as the new standard for how companies deal with the data of European residents. Its extra-territorial coverage means companies all over the world will have to pay close attention to its rules, or face hefty fines for non-compliance. Companies of all sizes would be well advised to prepare for its requirements effective May of 2018.