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…
[Yes: Three posts in one day. This is a record for me. But please read on...] Here's a short story, with a question at the end. I'd welcome any and all…
I just got off a webinar presented by the California Bar Association entitled: "Online Dispute Resolution: What It Is, How It's Done, and How to Craft…
I'm attending the OnHollywood conference next week in LA. Very psyched. Looking forward to connecting about digital media and entertainment with the folks d…
A couple months ago, my client, animal protection activist Erik Marcus, and the proprietor of "Podkeyword.com", George Lambert, quietly settled their…
New draft legislation, supported by the Bush Administration and Representative Lamar Smith, would significantly expand the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyr…
Over the past few weeks, no one who pays any attention to the contemporary dialogues in political science could have escaped hearing about the controversy surro…
Jane Goodall was interviewed in the most recent Sierra magazine about her latest work focusing on people, not chimpanzees: "Sierra: What has your many yea…
Whenever someone in the USA tests positive for certain diseases with substantial public health impact, information about that person is reported to the appropri…
In the Internet-enabled era, computer users can update the drivers for their peripherals with very little trouble. Manufacturers commonly provide copies of driv…
April 21-- Speaking at Law Seminar conference "Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers" on developments in the area of cyberlaw that bloggers and lawyers de…
Imagine a society in which journalists are licensed by the state, credentialed and monitored in a way similar to members of other professional guilds. Assume a…
For the next three days I will be blogging at Icommons.org on the Access to Knowledge Conference, held at Yale Law School, hosted by the Yale Information Societ…