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…
It disturbs me to no end to say that, when viewing these pictures (warning: they are graphic), it is difficult not to be ashamed as an American, even if these a…
"So the main idea behind the African Commons Project is about nurturing the idea of an “information commons” in Africa - discovering what that is, what it…
Some random thoughts I had about two books I read recently: "Copyright's Highway" by SLS Prof. Paul Goldstein, and "The World is Flat" b…
In yesterday’s New York Times the distinguished law professor Stanley Fish offered some provocative commentary on the recent furor over the Danish cartoons: “T…
Ever had your computer attacked by spyware? Do the names PacerD, Exfol, EliteBar, 180solutions, 3D Desktop, YupSearch, or BlazeFind sound familiar? If so, the…
I never publish press releases here but I'm going to make this exception. Patrick Ball is a pioneer in the use of technology to assist human rights activis…
TSA announced in hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee that they've suspended plans for Secure Flight, the "ambitious program to check every do…
An anxious (bored?) blog reader (I didn't know there were any!) has just emailed me saying: "It has been so long since you blogged. Your public demand…
In this patent infringement suit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the question of whether a patent holder retained the sta…
The Federal Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc over the issue of what is required in the written description to justify a patent’s claims. Lizardte…
Plaintiff Shelly Landry-Belle sued defendant Various Inc., the operator of AdultFriendFinder.com and several other websites, after Landry-Belle’s ex-boyfriend p…
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, granted plaintiffs’ Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and Entertainment Softwa…