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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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Pirates and Hollywood
I am researching for my talk to be delivered to the International Intellectual Property Program at Chicago-Kent Law School. This is how I have found what I bel…
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RFID in EU
Mrs Viviane Reding, Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, is launching an open public consultation on the benefits and risks of RFID. The main st…
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'Surveillance and You' Civic Forum
'Surveillance and You' is the title of this years Civic Forum of the Science, Technology & Society Program at UT Austin. The one day event will host…
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TracFone Gets Personal
News: In a great article (which I'm asking for permission to post in full) by Louis Trager for Communications Daily, Tracfone is claiming that I received pe…
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Google Privacy
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…
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The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
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…
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Action against the Internet Archive for breach of contract will proceed
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…
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National Security Letters and the FBI Abuses
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…
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U.S. Copyright Royalty Board Rejects Webcasters Call to Maintain of Royalty Rates
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…
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A Unitarian in Congress
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…
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WIPO Report on Domain Name Disputes in 2006
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…
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FCC May Allow Unlicensed use of 'White Space' Spectrum
Techdirt reports that the Federal Communications Commission may start to allow unlicensed uses in so- called "white space spectrum." WSS is the buffe…