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…
Glenn Smith sets the record straight on Brooks: "Isn't it a bit transparent when those who hold or seek power tell us that their power is all that will…
Matt Tabbibi makes some interesting points on Alternet: "If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family... woul…
From a posting by Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Foreign Policy in Focus: "...after my years in the army... I have come to the conclusion that warf…
Viacom agreed to license some of its vast content to Joost today, only a few weeks after ordering YouTube to pull 100,000 unauthorized clips from its programs f…
On Feb. 2, 2007, Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.) spoke at Stanford Law School as part of a speaker series sponsored by the Stanford Law and Policy Review ("SLP…
Patricia Cohen in the Times: "There was a time when ... points of trivia might arise at dinner or over drinks and lead to a brain-racking long debate or an…
David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of t…
I'm a big fan of Daniel Goleman, and he has an interesting piece in the New York Times this morning: "...[there is] a larger pattern plaguing the world…
I just discovered that Evan Brown has started up his Internet Cases Podcast again. Episode 25 comes after a 1-year hiatus and he jumps in with a quick discussio…
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Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…
We won an important victory over the Estate of James Joyce's motion to dismiss last week in Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce. The Estate had moved to dismis…