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…
In December, the Central District of California issued a new ruling on the Kiss Catalog case, which now holds that the anti-bootlegging statute does not run afo…
I'm posting the DOJ/Google complaint because it took me a while to find it and it makes pretty interesting reading. Particularly Google's Oct 10 letter…
On an extremely partisan left-wing blog called crooksandliars.com, a post today from a loyal reader fed up by it all: "For over a year now I’ve been bomba…
Journalist and "Ultima Online" junkie Julian Dibbell asks why fans of online games that involve selling imaginary assets don't have to pay taxes o…
According to National Journal Technology Daily: Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is making big money as a lobbyist for companies that offer the kind of ho…
In its ongoing quest to conquer the world, Google announced yesterday that it would spend up to $1.2 bn to buy a radio advertising sales unit (the final price w…
CIS Fellow Barbara van Schewick's paper "Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality" is available on ssrn. The Abstract: Over the past…
German CIS Fellows Stefan Bechtold, Christoph Engemann, Dan Wielsch and Barbara van Schewick will be presenting a panel on "Democratization of IT Infrastru…
So as I was working on my article on business method patents (spoiler: they're bad), I was inserting a brief discussion of the recent Ex rel Lundgren decisi…
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Where are the American heroes of today? From his speech "The…
CIS will host The Peer to Patent Project this semester for a meeting on HCI and the Design of Community Patent.…
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