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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
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Election Day Bloggers' Legal Guide
Lots of bloggers are planning to cover the 2006 general elections on November 7. But what are the legal issues that you need to understand? Such as: Can you be…
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Concerned Mediators Statement
At the Consolidating Our Wisdom Conference that I attended in Keystone, Colorado at the beginning of October, a group of mediators crafted a Senior Mediators…
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boy scouts, hollywood, and copyright, oh my
Cory Doctorow has an interesting post on Boing Boing about new merit patches for boy scouts relating to copyright. The patches bear the logos for the RIAA and t…
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Consensus that isn't bland, mushy, and meaningless
Two days ago President Clinton returned to his alma mater, Georgetown, and gave a wide ranging speech that reflected on his two terms in office. The Times summ…
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Upcoming Guests on Hearsay Culture
I'm very excited about the schedule of upcoming guests on Hearsay Culture, my radio show on KZSU-FM (5-6 PM PST on Wednesdays) and iTunes podcast. In rough…
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The forward-looking campaign
Kevin Sweeney, a visiting faculty member at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, had a great Op Ed in the Times on Monday entitled Running With Blinders. A…
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The power of the cellphone in the developing world
Sanjana pointed me toward a fascinating article in the Post from a few days ago: '...The cellphone is bringing new economic clout, profit and productivity…
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The wheel is off our national discourse
David Ignatius, in the Post today: '"Everyone knows that, somehow, the wheel has run off of our national discourse and our common life," Clinton…
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PodcampWest
I heard so much about the success of PodcampBoston when I was at the Podcast Expo, that I'm psyched to be able to attend Podcamp West next month on Nov. 18-…
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Trade secrets and public-private partnerships
I attended the CIS lunch speaker series yesterday where CIS Fellow David Levine gave an overview of his article about trade secrecy law and how it should be alt…
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this cracks me up
Denise Howell's VOX blog pointed me to this hilarious royalty demand from Stephen Colbert to GooTube. The math appears to be remarkably similar to that of t…
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support the commons
It's no secret that I'm a big believer in the Creative Commons. They just launched their second annual fund raising campaign. Click on this button, a…