I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
The copyright war just isn’t dramatic enough to warrant a good novel, let alone a big movie deal. Consider a few recent stories from the on-going battle betwee…
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times: "...these views shaped how I have responded to the financial catastrophe of the past few years. I was convinced that,…
John Richardson for Esquire: "These days, the argument that Obama hasn't accomplished anything may be the only example of real bipartisanship in Americ…
Last week a stream of cleantech related events emerged onto my radar is several ways. First, Bruce Abramson simply but profoundly commented on Facebook that he…
My op-ed today in The Hill (see “The Winter of Our Content,”) argues against those who want to derail the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. I don’t know eno…
I write today on CNET News.com (see "FTC's new strategy: kick 'em when they're down") that the FTC’s decision yesterday to attack Intel s…
Security expert Bruce Schneier today posts about the taxonomy of social networking data. He describes five types of data: "1. Service data. Service data…
I write today on CNET about several recent privacy gaffes and missteps, notably the damp squib that was Facebook's new privacy policy and tools. I have som…
Our President: "Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the wo…
Ezra Klein interviewing Stenny Hoyer in the Washington Post: "This is a United States Senate that has had more cloture votes in one year than in the '…
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s…
I have seen several posts (here, here, and also here) that discuss a recent patent infringement lawsuit filed late November to the DC District Court. Bloggers f…