What do you get when you gather a bunch of the sharpest legal minds in one room with delicious food and obscure tech law trivia? That’s right, you get EFF’s 15th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia night!
On June 29th we had a full house—with eight teams from technology law firms and internet companies throughout the Bay Area being put to the test with six rounds of trivia, ready to battle it out for the chance to win champion steins and of course, bragging rights.
The prizes: EFF steins!
After welcoming everyone to the event, EFF’s Hannah Diaz began the evening’s activities by introducing our snazzy Quiz Master Kurt Opsahl, and our judges Cindy Cohn, David Greene, and Jennifer Lynch. The judges donned their very authentic robes—with Cindy even wearing a wig(!)—and the competition was on!
Kurt started the event by reminding everyone that, “By participating in this contest you acknowledge and agree that Section 230 does not require an ISP to be a neutral platform.” After that requirement—that got a good laugh out of everyone—each team’s trivia muscles warmed up with “General Questions” for round one.
Round two of trivia, titled “Intellectual Property,” included a typo on a slide that the detail oriented lawyers were very quick to point out. At the end of this round, the score was very close, with the leading team “MofoGPT” winning by only one point! The game would continue to be close between the top teams, even with an upset in round six where the judges only awarded a full point to teams that made sure to write down “King Charles III” and award half points to those t
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