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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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How can you live in the northeast?
Great song by Paul Simon on his latest album, Surprise: "We heard the fireworks. Rushed out to watch the sky. Happy go lucky. Fourth of July. How can you…
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Government Paradox 101
So it's a little dated (mid-August), but I was morbidly amused at this article and headline from Federaltimes.com: "Transparency bill subjected to secr…
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Sound Policy with Denise Howell
Denise Howell interviewed me recently for her podcast series Sound Policy on IT Conversations. It's now available for downloading. Here's the descriptio…
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swamped, but check this out
I've been busily trying to finish an article I'm writing with Elizabeth Townsend Gard about podcasting in corpoarations and universities, but had to dro…
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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…
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Attribution "Plugins" for CC Licenses?
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…
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August Vacation / SMU course
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…
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Technologies of Peace and War
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…
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Bandwidth - Joe Gratz's live blog, book recommendations
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.…
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Workshop on Commons Theory for Young Scholars
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 "…
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Valenti on OurMedia...
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…
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Bandwidth Conference & Shindig
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…