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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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Freedom iFreedom
In a recent interview in the International Herald Tribune, the French minister of culture reaffirmed his country’s plans to promote interoperability in music fo…
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Against the New Cultural Turn in IP
One of the papers presented at Stanford’s recent conference, Cultural Environmentalism at 10, reflects a new shift in IP scholarship to reject utilitarianism’s…
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ICT4Peace
Sanjana Hattotuwa, a pioneer in the Online Dispute Resolution field, has started up a blog called "ICT for Peacebuilding" that explores the use of tec…
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Matt Drake 2006
Matt Drake is running for a seat on the SF Board of Supervisors for District 6. His campaign kick off party is next Thursday, May 4 (6 - 9:30 pm) @ a the very c…
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Are photo licensors exempt from the right of publicity?
[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…
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California Bar Association program on ODR
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…
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Upcoming events...
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…
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RSS-"hijacking" incident resolved (sort of)
A couple months ago, my client, animal protection activist Erik Marcus, and the proprietor of "Podkeyword.com", George Lambert, quietly settled their…
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Should the DMCA Have Even Bigger Teeth?
New draft legislation, supported by the Bush Administration and Representative Lamar Smith, would significantly expand the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyr…
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The Controversy over Walt/Mearsheimer
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…
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Learning from our ancestors
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…
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California will report names of those testing HIV+
Whenever someone in the USA tests positive for certain diseases with substantial public health impact, information about that person is reported to the appropri…