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…
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…
(This post was substantially updated on February 28th.) Democratic Representative Rick Boucher (from Virginia's 4th district -- the fightin' 4th!) has…
Jonathan Lethem's essay "The Ecstacy of Influence" was published in Harper's Magazine back in late January, which makes it ancient in the comp…
I'm pilfering a phrase from Siva Vaidhyanathan, who wrote an excellent article called "Copyright as Cudgel," noting how producers often use copyri…
The Commission of European Communities has just issued a communication on the follow-up fo the Work Programme for better implementation of the Data Protection D…
I had an AHAAA moment last night reading Martha Woodmansee’s „ The Author, Art, and the Market”. She writes „As my sketch of writers’ struggles suggests, eighte…
Most days the Web seems about "buy, buy, buy" or "sell, sell, sell." Many a Web tourist peers through a Web-content window, framed by a v…