On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
It was brought to my attention that the German high court decision on copyright and music sampling I had previously blogged on here received a fresh English tra…
My view on today’s Supreme Court case regarding business method and software patents appears on Slate.com's "The Big Money." (See http://larrydown…
Very interesting revisions to the IMVU peer review process... mirrors the Community Court in some important respects: "Q. What is Peer Review? A. Peer Rev…
On December 1 and 2, Supernova will be back in San Francisco with a really great assortment of discussions (agenda) and an extraordinary group of provacative sp…
In 1990, Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr was brutally murdered. Two of his business associates were convicted, imprisoned for the crime, and recently paroled.…
I am thrilled to post shows #100 and 101 at Hearsay Culture [where this post is cross-posted]. After over three years of shows, a few thank yous are appropriat…
Two recent articles with competing views of the fate of Hollywood content producers caught my attention. The first, by CNET’s Greg Sandoval, reiterates long-st…
An article in Sunday's New York Times by Chris Nicholson brings home an important lesson about digital life under The Law of Disruption. When social contrac…
If you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em. Earlier this week, Nokia filed suit in the U.S. to force Apple to pay royalties on Nokia patents involving cell phone technolog…
My analysis of the FCC’s proposed neutrality rules appears this morning on CNET. No surprise, I think the FCC’s plan is a bad idea, and I think, more to the po…
Great article on my Texas Instruments dispute in the IEEE Spectrum magazine, with a picture of one of my clients: For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don&…
I'm moderating an upcoming panel on law and robotics, co-sponsored by the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Stanford Progra…