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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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Best Practices for Online Video Video
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…
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Creative Commons Filtering Comes to Yahoo Image Search
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…
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Wolfram Alpha & curated knowledge about man & woman
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'…
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Obama and Open Government
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…
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State AG Threats To Craigslist Implicate Free Speech
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…
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A New Study on DRMs and their Impact on Privileged Use
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…
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Innovation and the Legal System
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…
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WhatApp? Alpha (Preview)
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…
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David Simon Goes to Washington
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…
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2009 ADNDRC conference
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…
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Court Denies Savage's Motion to Dismiss
Michael Savage’s motion to be dismissed as a defendant in Brave New Films’ wrongful DMCA takedown lawsuit was denied by Judge Illston on April 15. As explained…
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Apply Now: Architecture and Public Policy Project Research Fellow - Deadline Extended!
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is hiring a Research Fellow for the Architecture and Public Policy Project for a one year term. The s…