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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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DRM-free music from Apple & Microsoft
Apple has announced it would offer DRM-free music through iTunes. The offer is limited to the music catalog of one of the Major Labels, EMI. Customers still ca…
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The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy
P.B. Hugenholtz, M.M.M. van Eechoud, S.J. van Gompel et al., from U. of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law have published their report to the European Comm…
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Muni Wifi in SF helps Low Income Residents get Wired
Wired News has a nice article about how Muni Wifi is helping low income residents in San Francisco get wired: Last month, volunteers turned on a novel broadban…
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Free software and Public Administration
From the Italian Association for Free Software (Associazione Software Libero) a press release about a case concerning free software and Public Administration &…
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Anger and video games
This is the first discussion of this oft-emotional topic that I feel corresponds to my first hand experience... "Study finds stable personalities unaffecte…
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The banality of heroism
Philip Zimbardo: "Heroes come in two main casts; life-long heroes, like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and heroes of the moment…
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Guest Blogging at Terra Nova
Just a quick post to say that I will be guest blogging at Terra Nova this month. I, along with my 2L research assistant, Rachel Goda, will be discussing our cu…
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Lessig joins RIAA board of directors
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…
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Live Blogging IP Counterfactuals at MSU Law, Installment Two
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…
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Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
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…
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The Documentary Film Program
The Documentary Film Program provides filmmakers with information about fair use, access to insurance for liability arising out of copyright litigation, and acc…
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Armed with the wisdom of the children of darkness
David Brooks, quoting Reinhold Niebuhr: “The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove. The…