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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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“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…
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Help to Save Net Radio
After the recent Copyright Royalty Board decision (pdf), which set the new rates for webcasting (web radio and any other streaming audio over the internet), it…
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A download is not a "performance"
Haven't had a chance yet to read the full opinion yet, but the bottom line of this important ruling from the S.D.N.Y. is that a "download" of a fi…
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Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship?
Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship? My latest Wired News column revisits an issue I wrote about in a law review article a few years ago for the Yale…
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Viacom Does The Right Thing; CIS And EFF Dismiss Complaint
Last month we filed suit against Viacom for taking down Robert Greenwald's parody of the Colbert Report. We are happy to report that Viacom has conceded it…
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ABA National Institute on Computing and the Law
The ABA is having a conference on Computing and the Law June 25th and 26th. Here's the schedule (pdf). I'll be speaking on the 26th about the future o…
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Identity Theft Task Force Recommends Removal of $5000 Threshold in 18 USC 1030
President Bush's Identity Theft Task Force released its final report (pdf) on Monday. Among other things, the report recommends: (1) a reduction in the use…
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Shameless self promotion
I've posted the latest few episodes of my podcast, Rules For The Revolution. Episodes 009 and 010 is an interview with Kurt Opsahl of EFF about Section 230…
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You're Not Just Wrong -- You're Evil
Shankar Vedantam in the Post: "Opponents of the war believe passionately that President Bush, his neoconservative allies and a complicit Congress deliberat…
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Digital music - how did we get here?
Matt Burrows, one of my co-fellows here at CIS, gave a good talk today about how we ended up where we are today in the world of digital media. These are my note…