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…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
I was surprised reading the SF Chronicle today to learn that AB2987 is going to be voted on this week. There's a great series of video clips/interviews bot…
The problem of dealing with derived works has existed from the very beginning. From the very first days of the Open Publication License in 1998 I've had lon…
Forgive the sporadic posts -- I'm just getting back into the swing of things after a long stretch in Kauai with Cheryl and the boys. It was a beautiful tri…
My good friend Sanjana Hattotuwa recently wrote on his blog ICT4Peace: "To limit the use of technology to pacifism is, I would argue, to stunt its develop…
Joe Gratz live blogged the Bandwidth Conference here in SF. His wrap post is here (with links to all the sessions he blogged). I enjoyed the conference a lot.…
In May 2007, the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, in collaboration with Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, will hold a "…
This is great. JD Lasica has recorded a short (90-second) interview with Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA (he was head of MPAA for longer than I've bee…
On Friday, I'll be pannelling at the Bandwidth Conference with Roy Tuhin, Marc Morgenstern, and Todd Gascon about music rights and licensing. Our panel wil…
After several weeks doing the work/vacation thing in Idaho, I'm back at Stanford and hence, back on the air with "Hearsay Culture." Yes, the show…
Today I headed out for a quick lunchtime jog listening to a recent podcast of David Levine's radio show, Hearsay Culture. I listened to the podcast from Jun…
I've got a short article on ODR and Web 2.0 up on the site of e-Work Out, a UK-based organization focused on best practices in business processes. David Fe…
Cathy Kirkman, Nina Smith, and Deni Bonet are talking about transforming their lives through blogging. These three have come at this from very different backgro…