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…
I'm heading down to hear the oral arguments on the section 230 case, Barrett v. Rosenthal today. Eric Goldman has a good summary of the case and links to ke…
Golan v. Gonzales has been briefed and argued in the Tenth Circuit, and we are awaiting a decision. Government's brief is here. govt_response.pdf…
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…
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…
Denise Howell interviewed me recently for her podcast series Sound Policy on IT Conversations. It's now available for downloading. Here's the descriptio…
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…
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 "…