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…
Here are some of the April Fool's news from the file-sharing universe. The scary thing is, that they are (or should be) all real alternatives, and each and…
I’m back . . . and I’ll attempt to live blog the third copyright panel. I got no angry emails, so I’ll assume that I’ve done an innocuous, irrelevant and/or goo…
The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Iraq For Sale takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and ch…
The Documentary Film Program provides filmmakers with information about fair use, access to insurance for liability arising out of copyright litigation, and acc…
David Brooks, quoting Reinhold Niebuhr: “The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove. The…
I figure that I'll take my first shot at live-blogging, having been inspired by the Bay Area Blawgers event on Wednesday at Santa Clara [thanks to Prof. Eri…
Otters holding hands. If someone had told me 3 years ago that someone elses home videos could be this much fun to watch, I wouldn't have believed them. Lu…
Alexander Ponosov is a teacher in a small Russian village who was prosecuted for violating Microsoft’s intellectual property rights by installing illegal versio…
Greetings from the American Airlines Admiral's Club in Dallas, who among other nice amenities provides public web access. My inbox has this morning's N…
The Guardian reports that an internet libel and invasion of privacy case based on allegations over posts made on the blogs of advertising group WPP has been set…
Lee Dye on ABC News: "Does believing that "God is on our side" make it easier for us to inflict pain and suffering on those perceived to be our e…
Great coverage for them, and kudos to Kristof for the feature... "On a muddy street in Kabul, Abdul Satar, a bushy-bearded man of 64, was sitting in the wi…