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…
Google announced today that it is planning to change its privacy policy in the coming months. The official announcement says: "Unless we're legally re…
I am working in Europe this week with a large technology company, and of course everyone is talking about the filing of a $1 billion copyright infringement case…
The Internet Archive is doing a great service to humanity. It maintains a comprehensive record of all websites and employs a technology called the Wayback machi…
I weigh in on NSLs and the FBI with today’s Circuit Court column: FBI Slips Demand Patriot Act Cuts. I think the most interesting part of the column is the end…
On Friday March 2nd The United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasts, effective from 2006 to 2010. In doing so, Listening Pos…
I suppose that it's a breakthrough, of sorts, that Representative Pete Stark (D-Calif., from Berkeley, of course) is the "first Congress member in hist…
When I first started my research on legal aspects of domain names about five years ago (the result is available here) I had the feeling that I was beating a dea…
Techdirt reports that the Federal Communications Commission may start to allow unlicensed uses in so- called "white space spectrum." WSS is the buffe…
It's finally happened. Viacom has sued Google for $1 billion in damages for copyright infringement over videos posted on YouTube. This case will be a grea…
That's the question that greeted me this morning as I read my periodic communique from ACM. http://technews.acm.org/. Reasons cited for declining CS enrol…
It's old news by blog standards, as it happened last week, but the Copyright Royalty Board has announced the new royalty rates for webcasts. No surprise, t…
I will somehow have to catch up with the rest of the bloggers out there, who seem able to hear about, comment on, and get tired of a particular bit of news near…