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…
The High Tech Law Institute at SCU Law is sponsoring a gathering for Bay Area legal bloggers/blawgers tomorrow night. The goal is to get a bunch of law bloggers…
Usability expert Kathy Sierra has been victimized by some terrible online harrassment as of late. Her latest post details what she's gone through. I belie…
George Will in Sunday's Washington Post : "Many people who loathe George W Bush have adopted what Peter Wood describes as "ecstatic anger as a mod…
While fair use can be murky in some respects, there is no doubt that parody lies at the center of its protections. Viacom had YouTube take down Robert Greenwal…
href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp">My column in this month's CIO Insight describes a few of the big concerns I hav…
Last June we sued the Estate of James Joyce to establish the right of Stanford Professor Carol Shloss to use copyrighted materials in connection with her schola…
I spoke today about fair use and video policy at the Video on the Net conference in San Jose. My slides are available in flickr. It was great to see Denise, and…
About two years ago, I started collecting links to posts, articles, academic discussions and case law about internet libel. I've put this into del.icio.us w…
In January I started my first podcast series, Rules for the Revolution. The focus of the program is to answer general legal questions about the laws affecting…
Thomas Friedman's NY Times article today Marching with a Mouse provides vivid tribute to the financial market power of transparent accountability. Back in…
The NYT has the story about a popular blogger, Ms. Tequila, who was apparently contacted personally by MySpace’s founder, Tom Anderson, explaining to her why sh…
Nicholas Wade in today's NYT: "... primatologists have shown... a sizable overlap between the behavior of people and other social primates..." &q…