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…
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
This is a nice piece that describes the difference between the Google Book Project and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance Project to make book texts sea…
I miss Zero Mostel. I wonder how he'd use laughter to ponder and probe our Web World of today and tomorrow, and how Zero would raise concerns about the Web…
There's quite a bit of hullabloo on the internets today about two bloggers hired by the Edwards campaign to reach out to the online world, Amanda Marcotte a…
I received an email announcement from freeculture.org, "a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers invol…
Apple (computer) and Apple (records) announced yesterday they had once again (finally?) resolved their trademark dispute, which dated back to the formation of t…
This is the most important thing that has happened on the intellectual property front lately. Former Soviet president Gorbachev asks Microsoft's Bill Gates…
Over at the Legal Blog Watch, Robert J. Ambrogi notes the recent controversy over new NY attorney advertising rules. This is an important issue that puts legal…
Charles Pierce on Alterman's blog: "Molly [Ivins] made a point often of how much she liked good politicians and believed in the political system {...}…
I'm psyched to be speaking on a panel this spring at the South By Southwest Interactive conference. The panel is on Tuesday, March 13, and is entitled Video…
Wells Fargo and Visa released a study on Thursday that reported a significant decline in reports of identity theft last year. Still, the losses to individuals…
I attended the motion to dismiss hearing in the Shloss v. Estate of Joyce case on Wednesday morning. Here a photo of Professor Shloss and two people from the le…