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Cheers to the Winners of EFF’s 13th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

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On June 17th, the best legal minds in the Bay Area gathered together for a night filled with tech law trivia—but there was a twist! With in-person events still on the horizon, EFF’s 13th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night moved to a new browser-based virtual space, custom built in Gather. This 2D environment allowed guests to interact with other participants using video, audio, and text chat, based on proximity in the room.

EFF’s staff joined forces to craft the questions, pulling details from the rich canon of privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law to create four rounds of trivia for this year’s seven competing teams.

Gathertown room, with six tables and booths against the walls facing a stage to the right and a bar to the top.

Our virtual Gathertown room!

As the evening began, contestants explored the virtual space and caught-up with each-other, but the time for trivia would soon be at hand! After welcoming everyone to the event, our intrepid Quiz Master Kurt Opsahl introduced our judges Cindy Cohn, Sophia Cope, and Mukund Rathi. Attendees were then asked to meet at their team’s private table, allowing them to freely discuss answers without other teams being able to overhear, and so the trivia began!

Everyone got off to a great start for the General Round 1 questions, featuring answers that ranged from winged horses to Snapchat filters.

Everyone got off to a great start for the General Round 1 questions, featuring answers that ranged from winged horses to Snapchat filters. For the Intellectual Property Round 2, the questions proved more challenging, but the teams quickly rallied for the Privacy & Free Speech Round 3. With no clear winners so far, teams entered the final 4th round hoping to break away from the pack and secure 1st place.

But a clean win was not to be!

Durie Tangri’s team “The Wrath of (Lina) Khan” and Fenwick’s team “The NFTs: Notorious Fenwick Trivia” were still ti

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