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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shankar Vedantam in the Post: "Opponents of the war believe passionately that President Bush, his neoconservative allies and a complicit Congress deliberat…
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…
Last week I moderated a panel at the Bar Association of San Francisco about the proposed California Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1-7.5 (governing attorney ad…