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…
For several years I’ve been following advances in ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR), mostly through a Music IR list. This heavily academic community present…
Molly Ivins was one of the few voices that kept me sane back in my formative days in North Texas. And man, could she write... as James Thurman put it, when she…
Zimbio is a cool web 2.0 collaborative media company, that has developed a great tool for promoting your blog. (Full disclosure: Zimbio is a client of my firm,…
I have posted pictures from our live symposium event last Friday on my Flickr page. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success! Also, thanks to Lau…
Today, a three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit withdrew its opinion in United States v. Zeigler and issued a new opinion. As you may remember, the original…
This post from the Legal Blog Watch brought a smile to my face. It reports on the wonderful sense of humor of the attorneys over at Second Life. A recent parod…
This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing ge…
At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live. The webpage…
There is one thing about the 9th Circuit’s decision in Kahle v. Gonzales that I could not find any discussion about – namely, the international copyright law im…
here. Though the Court acknowledged that there had been a change from an opt-in to an opt-out system of copyright, the court held that because Eldred had resol…
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-…
I was contacted by researchers from the International University Bremen in Germany about a podcast study they are conducting (yes, the survey is in English!) .…