The first-rate legal minds within the Bay Area amassed at Github to participate in EFF’s 12th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night on June 27th. Over a hundred members from generation law corporations and Internet agencies all through the Bay Area attended for an evening full of obscure tech regulation trivia, scrumptious meals, and only a dash of dad tradition!
After attendees had piled their plates high with hen and waffles in guidance for the nighttime competition, all 12 teams set their sights at the coveted Cyberlaw Quiz Cup. EFF’s workforce joined forces to craft the questions, pulling details from the rich canon of privacy, unfastened speech, and intellectual assets regulation to create seven rounds of trivialities.
After welcoming anybody to the event, EFF’s Cindy Cohn started the evening’s activities by introducing our intrepid Quiz Master Kurt Opsahl and our judges Alex Moss, Andrew Crocker, and David Greene. Trivia was given off to a raucous beginning, ensuing in possibly the simplest time an entire room full of humans have ever cheered for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and MS-thirteen, answers to questions at some point Rounds 1 & 2.
There had been additionally several moments wherein Kurt and the panel of judges deliberated over challenges using the teams on behalf of their answers, one in every of which led to a locating that there were, in reality, two suitable answers to a query regarding a list of works that were NOT entering the general public domain this 12 months.
It turns out, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon wasn’t the handiest accurate more than one desire alternative on the list because it might seem that due to some confusion about global publishing and a 9th Circuit case from the ’90s, Felix Salten’s tale Bambi stays underneath US copyright! Oh dear, the most effective time will tell if this question will go back with a vengeance at a later installment of the EFF Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night.
The rounds continued to project individuals because the nighttime advanced, especially in the course of the Supreme Court Audio Round, in which absolutely everyone listened intently to Justice Ginsburg’s timeless phrases, “make pot prison” and “bong hits for Jesus” even as trying to call the court case they were uttered all through (Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans).
As always, the crew names had been extra special. Just days before the competition was to start, the Supreme Court dominated that the logo “FUCT” need to be allowed a federal trademark and more than one institution seized their possibility to reference this ruling. As you may consider, this led to a fantastically playful “promoting of vulgarity” when it came time to announce crew rankings at some stage in the nighttime.
Competition became fierce, but “FUCT” in the end proved to be a positive namesake: this 12 months’ 1st area winner became none other than “F.U.C.T.” (Fenwick Underwrites Cyberlaw Trivia)! They were followed through “DT FUCT” (Durie Tangri LLP) in the 2nd region, who controlled to pull beforehand by way of an unmarried factor over “Huawei or the Highway” (San Francisco General Council, and ringers), who took the third area for the evening. EFF’s summertime legal interns also made a robust showing, and their crew calls “Zero Dark, Section 230” turned into without a doubt deserving of its personal award, regardless of The Rules stating they had been not able to compete officially.
Please be a part of us in congratulating this yr’s minutiae masterminds:
EFF hosts the Cyberlaw Trivia Night to collect those in the criminal network who help defend online freedom for his or her customers. Among the many firms that retain to devote their time, talent, and sources to the motive, we would especially like to thank Durie Tangri LLP; Fenwick & West LLP; Keker, Van Nest, & Peters LLP; Ridder, Costa & Johnstone LLP; and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP for sponsoring this 12 months’ Bay Area occasion.
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