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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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"Who needs copyright, anyway?"
John Degen, a Canadian novelist, has a thoughtful post on how he has resolved to make his latest novel, The Uninvited Guest, freely available for download onlin…
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Premise Media Files Oppositions to Preliminary Injunction Motions
Today we filed our oppositions to the preliminary injunction motions filed by Yoko Ono Lennon (federal case) and EMI Records (state case). They are attached be…
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Digital Identity Syllabus
In spring 2007 I taught a class on Digital Identity in the STS Progam at UT Austin. Please find my syllabus attached below. I'd be very thankful for comment…
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Fair Use Project to Represent Premise Media Against Yoko Ono Lennon and EMI Records
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a controversial film about a contentious issue: whether proponents of intelligent design are being unfairly silenced in ac…
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Where Were the Mediators?
David Hoffman in the 5/12 Christian Science Monitor: "When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang earlier this month, what kept them fro…
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Ruiz v. Gap, Inc.
Was March National Privacy Month and no one told me? (October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, so don't try to hack anything.) In addition to a…
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New ODR startup: AllRise.com
Allrise.com: a community justice site... a couple people (Sanjana was first, John Muller was second) sent me this link after Michael Arrington profiled it on hi…
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My wife's new food blog: 5 second rule
As the many thousands of loyal readers of this blog know, I eat far better than I deserve to, totally as a result of my betrothal to my beloved, the food writer…
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International Cybercrime (Of The Horse)
A colleague and I were just discussing a new international working group, chaired by the FBI, which has “band[ed] together to fight cyber crime in a synergistic…
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Assistant Professor Barbara van Schewick testifies on the Future of the Internet
Transcripts attached below of oral and written testimony by Assistant Professor Barbara van Schewick at the 4/17 FCC Hearing. van Schewick FCC Oral Testimony A…
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The People's Court - RAW
Jeff Bercovici on Conde Nast's Portfolio.com: "Over the weekend, I stumbled across what appears to be a stealth-marketing campaign for a new website, P…
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Create a personal website in 2 minutes
Israel is a buzzing hive of small start-up technology companies that produce great ideas and original solutions. One of them is WIX, which offers a (free - as f…