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…
The Copyright Office periodically sends out a summary of notices and upcoming dates and deadlines from its News Net service. News Net Issue 304, which I receive…
On Friday, December 15, we filed Carol Shloss's opposition to the Joyce Estate's motion to dismiss her claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.…
This is the first time that I'm blogging so please be patient :). It is very hard to make even a small contribution to the issues studied at CIS when you a…
Tom Friedman on Meet the Press yesterday: "Barack Obama’s great strength right now is the country is so tired of being divided. Deliberately divided, OK,…
One of the noisiest partisans out there, Atrios, has indicated in a post on his blog that his relentless cynicism may be thawing slightly: "I suppose it&#…
From David Pogue in the New York Times: 'The deeper we sail into the new online world of communications, the sadder I get about its future. I’m OK with cr…
Jason Van Orden brought an issue about FTC rules as they apply to "affiliate marketing" to my attention today. He writes about an issue raised by Gary…
One of the most challenging problems for national security is predicting and stopping terrorist attacks before they happen. The government proposes that data mi…
This article from this month's Sydney Morning Herald describes the means by which terrorists have used the Internet to communciate and avoid detection, as w…
As my biography notes, I am presently researching the alleged chilling effect of post-9/11 government security measures on the use of technology, principally th…
The Future of Music Coalition holds a policy summit each year. Last October the summit was convened in Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with Pop Montreal and Mc…
Just received a link to this article which reports on the outcome of the Japanese version of our Grokster case, only this case is in the criminal context (rathe…