Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow with the University of Colorado's Silicon Flatirons
Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Boulder, researching intellectual
property, innovation, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects
Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to
cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project,
promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology. She seeks to improve
technology policy in support of user-driven innovation. 

She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information
Privacy at American University Washington College of Law, Northeastern Law School, and
Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute,
teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked
World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with online civil liberties group Electronic
Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues,
and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. 

Wendy speaks and writes on copyright, trademark, patent, open source, and the public
interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School,
and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).

Law and Technology

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...

 

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The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, ExpressO (2009)

Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It...

 

Science and Technology

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The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, ExpressO (2009)

Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It...

 

Law and Economics

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...

 

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The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, ExpressO (2009)

Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It...

 

Intellectual Property Law

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...

 

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The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, ExpressO (2009)

Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It...

 

Computer Law

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...

 

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The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, ExpressO (2009)

Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It...

 

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The Politics of Internet Control and Delegated Censorship, American Society of International Law (2007)

Against the myth that the Internet breaks traditional political boundaries, we find that the Internet...

 

Communications Law

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...

 

Constitutional Law

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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment, ExpressO (2010)

Each week, more blog posts are redacted, more videos deleted, and more web pages removed...