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…
Bono in the NYT today: "The Nobel Peace Prize is the rest of the world saying, “Don’t blow it.” But that’s not just directed at Mr. Obama. It’s directed a…
Gene Lyons on Salon: "Appearing on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” the White House’s Dunn made it clear that the Obama administration intends to deal with the ne…
One of my new projects is defending researchers and bloggers discussing how to put custom operating systems on TI calculators. The press release and explanatory…
An Australian court rules that a mortgage company can issue notice of a lien over Facebook. A court in the UK permits an injunction to be served via Twitter.…
Sources cited by The New York Times indicate the U.S. Justice Department has once again opened an antitrust investigation against IBM. Remember IBM? The new i…
On October 23, 2009, the UC Berkeley School of Law will host an all-day conference at the Bancroft Hotel to explore some of the most pressing legal challenges,…
In It's My Browser, and I'll Auto-Click if I Want To, Fred blogs about how EFF is representing SkipScreen, a Firefox browser add-on that helps users avo…
“Patriotism,” as Samuel Johnson famously said, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” In that sense, perhaps the USA PATRIOT Act is appropriately named after all…
In 1998, all hell broke loose as the U.S. government considered how to govern the network it had created. That fight has now ended, with a whimper: http://larr…
No one would seriously disagree with my observation that the patent system has become the single greatest obstacle to innovation faced by entrepreneurs and esta…
On Aug 31st, the Brazilian government launched its first official blog, "Blog do Planalto" (http://blog.planalto.gov.br/sobre-o-blog-do-planalto/). [&…
I am very excited about the slate of upcoming guests for Hearsay Culture this quarter! Ranging from copyright experts to technology philosophers, this quarter…