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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
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California Is Being Asked to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Doesn't Have To.
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
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Comment to the California State Bar on AI-related proposed ethics rule changes
I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
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How lucky people think differently than unlucky people
From a Fast Company interview with Richard Wiseman by Daniel Pink a few years back that my friend Nat Johnson sent me: "What are some of the ways that luc…
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The origins of mistrust
Damien Cave in today's New York Times: "Shatha al-Musawi, a Shiite member of Parliament, first encountered the Sunni-Shiite divide on the day the Ameri…
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BT Responds to Plaintiffs' Opposition to His Fee Motion
The briefing on BT's motion for attorneys' fees is now complete. Last Friday, BT filed his Reply Memorandum in response to Plaintiffs' Opposition t…
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Blowing the Horn
John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen in the March/April Foreign Affairs: "The Greater Horn of Africa, the hottest conflict zone in the world, is a legi…
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Circumvention - a matter of geography
Most of the world seems to know by now how New Jersey teenager George Hotz cracked last week the Apple iPhone protection lock which tethers users to the mobile…
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Reaffirming First Principles of Open Communications Networks
Consumer group comments in the FCC's Broadband Practices Notice of Inquiry demonstrate the failure of the current reliance on a cozy, Telco-Cable duopoly to…
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Music Downloads 2008 - A Victory for Consumers and Artists
Less than a decade after the advent of file sharing, sales figures indicate that the recording industry sold more singles than albums and unsigned artists sold…
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Section 102(b) and negative categories of copyright subject matter
Section 102 of the Copyright Act has been receiving quite some attention in legal commentary recently. Professor Pamela Samuelson authored an article challengin…
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The most important essay I've read on the war this year
This essay by four non-commissioned officers in the NYT on Sunday provides a shot of clarity that cuts right through the nattering nabobs. I think everyone sho…
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Defending Wikipedia’s Impolite Side
Noam Cohen in today's New York Times: "Before Mike Godwin became general counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation last month, he was the subject of a Wikipe…
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Cooperative Breeding in Birds Sheds Light on Altruism
David Brown in today's Washington Post: "Why do we help out our relatives when one of them needs a buck or a meal, and who gains the most from such act…
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Two of my favorite advocates
It's a nice morning when I look at the front page of the SF Chronicle (on line, of course) and find two of my favorite copyright advocates quoted in the sam…