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…
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…
I'm teaching "Online Dispute Resolution: The State of the Art" at my alma mater, UMass-Boston, on Wednesday, June 13th, right before eBay Live the…
After finally reading the briefs from Eldred v. Ashcroft, I have reinvigorated mentally gymnastics about the problem with the application – and continuing exist…
I must admit that I enjoy occasionally perusing the celebrity gossip websites. The salacious tidbits on these sites instill a reassuring sense of normalcy and s…
Copyright assignment law seems to contain a massive loophole that has not been addressed by either Congress or the Courts. As a result, it is possible that an…
Creative Commons is launching a new initiative CCLearn "to break down the barriers - whether legal, technical or cultural - between different collections o…
This video may be our first glimpse of just how different, if not revolutionary, the 2008 presidential election may be. The ability of ordinary people to creat…