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…
Eric Saltzman (PSS Systems, Inc.) started us off with a quick summary of the main changes to the FRCP regarding discovery: (1) adding "electronically stor…
I'm enjoying a good day here at Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices conference. Eric Sinrod, James Grimmelman and Seth Steinberg of Lucas Arts are spea…
The New York Times Tech Talk podcast has a segment in today's episode featuring a listener question about music licensing on the web. I was interviewed by…
TorrentFreak has a cute story about how politicians are receiving “a fair amount of money” (aka campaign contributions) from the RIAA and the MPAA to promote st…
BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports that an Illinois court has ruled that an interactive Web page offering out-of-state visitors the ability…
Heise.de in Germany reports that a Hamburg court has ruled that forum owners should have unlimited liability, and are co-culpable for, any comments or discussio…
Josephine Hearn in The Politico: "Cleaver has been fed up with the level of partisan bickering he has found in Congress since he arrived in 2005. He has he…
In yesterday's Wired News Circuit Court column "Free the Spam King" I take on the question of whether criminal prosecutions will stop spam, or are…
Supermodel Caprice has, according to the Press Gazette, launched a £100,000 legal battle for libel damages over stories in The Sun and on the paper’s website.…
Here is an editorial from today's L.A. Times, entitled Portrait of the Old Man as a Copyright Miser: How a Lawsuit About Some Old Books and Letters Sheds L…
The Center for Internet and Society is now accepting applications for the 2007-2008 Non- Residential Fellowship Program. CIS Non-Residential Fellows work indep…
Cellphone users try to wrest some of carriers control - The Boston Globe I'm quoted in this story about cell phone companies efforts to keep their customer…