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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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Poorly written terms of service agreements #2
In the Internet-enabled era, computer users can update the drivers for their peripherals with very little trouble. Manufacturers commonly provide copies of driv…
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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…
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Media Monitoring in Zimbabwe
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…
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A2K @ Yale
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…
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A new kind of broadcast flag?
Recently, a U.S. patent application by Philips was published. Philips seeks a patent for an "apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel d…
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How to Succeed in Punditry
Ezra Klein on the art of being a pundit: "Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with…
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Nuturing the African Commons
icommons Africa is a new project dedicated to Nurturing the African Commons. Africans living in a continent so rich in culture and heritage, often struggle to…
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Tarleton Gillespie
Monday April 17, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served DRM strategies for technical copy protection regulate the use of con…
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Help needed: History of 'Share'
I am working on a small genealogy of sharing in the context of computers. Surprisingly there is very little literature on this phenomenon. The word 'share&#…
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Poorly written terms of service agreements
I recently created an American Airlines frequent flyer account online. Here is one of the oddest parts of the Terms of Service agreement displayed when you open…
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The Empirical Impact of Filesharing
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) recently released a study suggesting that illegal downloading cost the British music industry 1.8 billion pounds over th…
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Assault on the privacy of your harddrive
Microsoft recently 'helped' Oklahoma craft a spyware protection act. They conveniently wrote in broad exceptions to make sure they and other content and…