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…
My Wired News column today is Hack My Son's Computer, Please, a discussion of the Fourth Amendment opinion in U.S. v. Andrus (pdf), issued in April by the T…
From Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason: "Why has America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned? Faith in the powe…
The Ninth Circuit has issued its long-awaited opinion in Google v. Perfect 10. Read the decision here. My initial take is that it's a mixed bag. On one h…
This has left me speechless. Read also here on the administration's new bill called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007. Maybe you'll becom…
Brooks in the 5/11 NYT : "In April 1999, Blair delivered a speech in Chicago in which he ran down all the features of the globalized world that cross borde…
Tom Grubisich, in the May 14th Washington Post: "These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones. There's one massiv…
Science Daily, reporting on a U-Michigan press release, May 12: "Most people don't appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psycholog…
After a successful trial MySpace has announced its novel “Take Down Stay Down” campaign. The idea is that upon reception of notice about unauthorized upload of…
While with CIS, Fellow Elizabeth Rader (now with Akin Gump) did a lot of excellent work for college broadcasters facing prohibitively high fees and complex pape…
After a very long saga, BT has been vindicated in his fight againt New York Musician Ralph Vargas and Vargas's producer, Bland-Ricky Roberts, who together a…
Robert Ambroji has a nice article in Law.com's In-House Counsel section on wikis and their use in the legal profession. He highlights a number of law-relate…
NPR's Morning Edition ran an extended profile of the Fair Use Project and some of the clients it has worked with. Listen to it here.…