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…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
In this week's Circuit Court column, I write about the legislative battle over changing our communications eavesdropping laws and a related issue of giving…
Virginia Heffernan in the NYT Magazine over the weekend: "Movies and music engage and enlighten me, but they don’t steal my mind... For that I increasingly…
Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, authored by Prof. Henry Smith was published last summer in the Yale Law Journal. It…
Music sampling has suffered a strange fate at the hands of copyright law. It should fare well under the fair use doctrine. In general, it's very transform…
Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb's promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infr…
Using a combination of archival, interview and new concert footage as well as photographs, news clippings, and contemporary critical analysis, HOT FLASH tells t…
So I'm 24 hours late, but yesterday was Blog Action Day, which focused on an effort to get people talking about the environment. It's an interesting co…
David Ignatius in today's Post: "We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor." That comment from Lt. Col. David…
I've been reading through a study of Google's patents prepared by Stephen Arnold entitled Google Version 2.0: The Predator. Mr. Arnold displays a foren…
Daniel Goleman in the 10/7 NYT: "We were having an e-mail exchange about some crucial detail involving publishing rights, which I thought was being worked…
The Business Shrink, October 10th, 2007: "With virtual world’s forming into the next big thing on the horizon, the real world is starting to play catch up…
From the most serene and blissful town of Marshall, TX comes Patent Litigation Haiku from Michael Smith's Eastern District of Texas Practice blog. http://…