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…
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…
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…