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…
Now this is going to be cool: http://wave.google.com/ I urge you to watch the youtube video of the demo. Who knows if it's going to get critical mass --…
In May, Free Press released a report titled Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. The 48-page document is the most intelligent and comprehens…
Last Summer, the Center for Social Media released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, a first of its kind document—coordinated by American…
Flickr has been offering users the ability to search by Creative Commons license since mid-2006, and I've been waiting for Yahoo to implement such a feature…
The web was abuzz with Wolfram Alpha the past week and I too took a test drive with varying results. Among other things I simply entered the terms 'man'…
The White House announced its Open Government initiative today... check it out at http://www.whitehouse.gov/open. My good friend Beth Noveck's fingerprints…
This post is co-authored by Ryan Calo and CIS summer intern Joshua Auriemma. On Saturday Night Live’s classic segment “Really?!? With Seth & Amy,” two incr…
Patrícia Akester from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge has just published a new study on DRM. Here’s the…
I haven't posted much the last few months as I finished the manuscript for a new book, "The Laws of Disruption,” which appears in October. Inc. magazin…
A generous grant from the Rose Foundation has made it possible for the Center to develop WhatApp?, an expert and user-driven review website for software apps th…
I believe “The Wire” was one of the best television series’ ever made, so I was greatly disappointed to learn the substance of David Simon’s recent testimony to…
If anyone happens to be in Hong Kong next week, the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center is having its conference on May 22nd at the Grand Hyatt. All th…