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…
In my column in CIO Insight this month, http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2059021,00.asp, I note that in addition to legal alternatives to getting the i…
Here is a very encouraging case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Blanch v. Koons. Visual artist Jeff Koons is no stranger to the courts. Specializing…
Yesterday I finished my draft of my preliminary search results for primary and secondary authority covering the application of the fair use defense to 'borr…
Last August, film-maker Javier Prato received a cease and desist letter from Universal Music, who complained that his short film, “Jesus Christ: The Musical,” w…
David Sirota: "...is the real problem afflicting our political system a lack of so-called "bipartisanship" or is it actually too much bipartisan…
The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been emb…
This is too funny. I had to share it here. Check out Chris Pirillo's comparison of YouTube vs. GoogleVideo vs. Revver. When I do the comparison from my DSL…
I've just joined the Silicon Valley Team in Training chapter to train for a half marathon this Spring. All Team in Training members commit to raise funds a…
Last week the Pew/Internet & American Life Project issued a Data Memo about Podcast Downloading. It concludes that 12% of internet users have dowloaded a po…
Please see my research blog at www.warsystems.hu, where i post news clipping from the world of intellectual property and file-sharing daily.…
Watch the new "Wanna Work Together" video (3 min), and click on the ad! In catching up on some email and other odds and end this holiday weekend, I…
So, thanks to the Librarian of Congress, film professors and media studies professors can now make a compilation of film clips for class without breaking the la…