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…
Yes, it's finally true. The Podcasting Legal Guide is done. You can read it here, download a pdf of it here, or (soon!) order your print-on-demand version f…
This looks like it will be great! Learn the latest tricks and how to "pimp out" your vlog at the first VloggerCon. You can buy your tickets here. Yay!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…