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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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TWiL on ecommerce
The latest episode of Ian Ballon as a guest and discusses the latest in electronic commerce or "Internet Law". The episode starts off with a brief dis…
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Copyright in derivative works vs. collective works
About a week ago the Ninth Circuit issued this ruling that analyzes the difference between a collective work and a derivative work in a copyright infringement c…
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Exciting Interational Online Competition -- Win an All-Expense Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
I am one of the organizers for the InternetBar.org competition designed to encourage ideas and interaction around the problem of creating a trusted online envir…
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Digging the grave for next-generation DVD TPMs?
That a string of digits-and-letters receives the honor to be composed into a song is, I think, a noteworthy development. Sure, copyright law is about fostering…
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Prof. Michael Geist at CFP
Here's a quick live-blog of Prof. Michael Geist's dinner talk tonight at the Computers Freedom & Privacy conference in Montreal. Future of the Inte…
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Supreme Court’s Patent Cases: Angels? Dancing? On?
I’ve just read the opinions released on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court in two separate patent cases, KSR v. Teleflex and Microsoft v. AT&T. Though the bu…
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Rules for the Revolution - Trademark episode with Marty Schwimmer
Episode 13 of Rules for the Revolution covers issues related to trademarks, corporate names, and domain names, and includes a brief discussion about the initial…
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Be carefull out there, dear bloggers
I am echoing here a post from Science Commons’ blog featuring another juicy story of apparent abuse of copyrights against a science student at the University of…
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not your everyday podcast IV
I was very delighted to find iTunes downloading a new 'Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)' podcast . After a long hiatus of almost 2 years an…
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“Special 301” Report for 2007 is out
Here is the link. It’s an interesting reading, though not utterly astonishing with respect the usual suspects it names. No less than 43 trade partners of the U.…
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Builder Sues Review Site and Google Over Anonymous Posting
The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that: "a Bergen County builder is suing a consumer-advocate Web site and Internet search-engine Google over an anonymou…
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Bill Moyers on Buying the War
If you get a chance, I highly recommend viewing the first episode of Bill Moyers' new program Journal, entitled Buying the War, especially as it is availabl…