Last week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and several bipartisan colleagues introduced a bill to protect victims of cyberbullying and “revenge porn,” also known as non-consensual intimate imagery. The bill, Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, or TAKE IT DOWN Act, will, if passed, require a “covered platform,” such as a website, online service, or mobile app, to establish procedures for removal and remove the imagery and any copies upon a valid request from the identifiable individual within 48 hours of the request.
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What’s behind the name? “Ex Libris Juris” is Latin for “from the books of law” and much of the information here will relate to the legal information collected and curated by the Law Library. Additionally, “Ex Libris” has long appeared on bookplates – labels appearing inside the front cover of books – and has acquired the connoted meaning “from the library of” to show ownership of the book. Using this connotation, the phrase becomes “from the library of law” and better describes the posts about digital resources, event announcements, and research tips that will regularly appear here.