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…
Shankar Vedantam in today's Washington Post: "The different perceptions of victims and perpetrators in Baumeister's experiment are a result of a ph…
Wow, this is pretty forceful stuff. Feels to me like we're at something of a breaking point if internal voices (such as those inside DOJ) are willing to sp…
David Brooks in the 6/6 New York Times: "Nothing is sadder than the waning dream of integration. This dream has illuminated American life for the past seve…
In a press release from today the IFPI hails a Belgium court decision, which reportedly imposes a duty on an Internet Service Provider to use filtering technolo…
The award winning video blog Alive In Baghdad will be appearing on ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday, July 5. Here's the info direct from the AiB…
Semiconductor Insights, a firm that reverse engineers products, took the screwdriver and pliers to an iPhone. They have a video on YouTube. http://www.semicon…
Next month I’ll be speaking about my work on copyright law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. The title o…
Thomas Friedman in today's NYT, writing about Dov Seidman's new book called How: '...in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” yo…
{Cross Posting from Rules for the Revolution Blog} Creative Commons of Canada announced today that it has published a Canadian version (.pdf) of our Podcasting…
My good friend John Helie emailed me today about the Microsoft Photosynth project and its potential to flesh out the next generation of the net. John has been…
I have previously written about the problems associated with the Copyright Royalty Board's new royalty rates for webcasts. To bring attention to this issue…
Kristof in the Times: '“We see war coming,” Mr. Nkunda said, and he pulled out his laptop to show a map indicating that various government-backed forces are…