J.R.McHale

EFF has created a new tool, [Democracy.io](https://democracy.io/#/), to facilitate sending messages to members of the US Senate and House of Representatives. EFF Announcement: [Launching Democracy.io as a Step Toward a Better Democracy](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/launching-democracyio-step-toward-better-democracy)

Version 5.0 of Professor [James Grimmelmann](http://james.grimmelmann.net)’s (University of Maryland) [Internet Law: Cases and Problems](http://internetcasebook.com) has been released (pdf casebook; $30 suggested price).

2015 edition of Professor Eric Goldman’s (Santa Clara University School of Law; High Tech Law Institute) [Internet Law Cases and Materials](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/07/2015-internet-law-casebook-now-available.htm) has also been released (pdf – $8, hard copy – $20 plus shipping/tax, and kindle – $9.99 editions).

Politico has a [Morning CyberSecurity Tipsheet](http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity). Sign up at the link.

All four have been added to my updated list of [Internet Law and Policy Resources](https://www.jrmchale.org/cyberlaw-resources/).

The reading syllabus ([pdf](http://www.law.washington.edu/CourseCatalog/Syllabi/2015-Spring_CaloRy_E547_Robotics_Law_and_Policy.pdf); two pages) for Professor Ryan Calo’s (University of Washington) course on law and robotics – an excellent resource for those interested in robotics/drones/AI. Among other things, it includes Professor Calo’s own paper, [Robotics and the Lessons of Cyberlaw](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2402972), 103 California Law Review (forthcoming 2015), and Professor Jack Balkin’s (Yale) [The Path of Robotics Law](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2586570), 5 California Law Review Circuit (forthcoming 2015).

Related:
> The [agenda](http://www.werobot2015.org/) (and conference [roundup](http://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2015/04/multiplicity.html)) for the “We Robot 2015” conference on robotics, law and policy recently held at the University of Washington, including links to various academic papers such as Woodrow Hartzog’s [Unfair and Deceptive Robots](http://www.werobot2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hartzog-Unfair-Deceptive-Robots.pdf)

> [What is a Robot, Anyway?](https://hbr.org/2015/04/what-is-a-robot-anyway) – Harvard Business Review

> [If a Robot Kills Someone, Who is to Blame?](http://www.theglobeandmail.com//news/world/if-a-robot-kills-someone-who-is-to-blame/article23996250/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe) – The Globe and Mail

> [The Myth Of AI: A Conversation With Jaron Lanier](http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai) – Edge; and a response: [Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI](http://kk.org/thetechnium/2015/04/why-i-dont-worry-about-a-super-ai/) – Kevin Kelly at Technium

> [Robots for Humans: Addressing the Engineering Challenges](http://insights.globalspec.com/article/788/robots-for-humans-addressing-the-engineering-challenges) – IHS GlobalSpec

Beginning January 20th, a [Coursera course on Surveillance Law](https://www.coursera.org/course/surveillance) taught by [Jonathan Mayer](https://jonathanmayer.org/) of Stanford University.

Nice to see the open source (and free or low cost) casebook movement continue to gather steam. Even better that we are starting to see epub/mobi editions; pdf’s often present poorly on mobile devices:

> Professor Eric Goldman’s [2014 Internet Law casebook and syllabus](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/08/2014-internet-law-casebook-and-syllabus-now-available.htm) (pdf – $8, hard copy and kindle editions).

> Professors Rebecca Tushnet and Eric Goldman’s [2014 Advertising & Marketing Law casebook](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/08/announcing-the-second-edition-of-advertising-marketing-law-cases-and-materials-by-tushnet-goldman.htm) (pdf and epub editions – $11.50).

> Professor James Boyle (Duke law school) and Jennifer Jenkins’ (Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain) [Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society; cases & materials (open casebook – 2014 edition)](http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/08/26/open-coursebook-in-intellectual-property/#more-1728) (pdf edition – free; paperback – $29.99).

> Professor Barton Beebe’s [Trademark Law: An Open Source Casebook](http://us.creativecommons.org/archives/942) (2014) [(pdf and .doc versions – free)](http://tmcasebook.org/).

> Professor James Grimmelmann’s [Internet Law: Cases and Problems 4.0](http://internetcasebook.com/) (pdf – $30 suggested price).

> The United States Copyright Office has released a public draft of its “[Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition](http://copyright.gov/comp3/)” (1,222 page [pdf](http://copyright.gov/comp3/docs/compendium-full.pdf) – free). Pending final review, the compendium (the first since 1984’s Second Edition) will take formal effect on or around December 15, 2014.