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…
Link to the Greenpeace website here with the actual poster (PDF) featuring the slogan "Not Only Banks, Save Also the Environment!"…
The most interesting aspect of cyberspace is not what happens for a time to its visitors. It’s not the absence of regulation nor the presence of perfect regula…
Two years ago, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals broke new ground. It held the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works departed from the &q…
Matt Harding, NPR's Weekend Edition today: "I believe globalization is forcing our brains to evolve. I've had the privilege to see a lot more of t…
Interesting/humbling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY Supposedly this is a year old (though I'd never seen it before) so the numbers are even bi…
This week, Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief with the Illinois Appellate Court in support of hefty procedural safeguards to protect the anonymity…
Daniel Schorr on NPR: "The president tends to seek conflict resolution rather than drama. He has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, confronted with an…
With a change in administration, this is a key moment in policymaking with respect to broadband in America. The market fundamentalists, whose liassez faire poli…
Proposal to serve those without braodband available by using stimulus funding to deploy middle mile fiber and provision the first mile with cutting edge wireles…
You don't see a lot of law comics, much less comics about copyright law. Does this clever cartoon from across the Web describe an instance of fair use? Yo…
A paper by M. Chris Riley and Ben Scott called Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?, is available at: http://www.freepress.net/files/D…
On March 2 the Supreme Court granted certiorari on a copyright case covering the question whether section 411(a) of the Copyright Act restricted the subject mat…