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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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West Wing Cancelled
I am absolutely devastated by this. We've reached a point where TV is really great again-- think Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Alias (at least the older ones…
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Natali Helberger
Monday January 23, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served Sony's latest Digital Rights Management (DRM)-endeavour earned…
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New Kiss Catalog opinion from CD California
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…
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Copy of the DOJ v. Google Complaint and some thoughts
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…
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How Understanding Plays in the Blogosphere
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…
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CIS Fellow Julian Dibbell asks why Feds don't tax online game winnings
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…
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Ashcroft "demeaning" office of Attorney General
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…
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Google Conquers Radio
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…
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Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality
CIS Fellow Barbara van Schewick's paper "Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality" is available on ssrn. The Abstract: Over the past…
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News from the German CIS Fellows
German CIS Fellows Stefan Bechtold, Christoph Engemann, Dan Wielsch and Barbara van Schewick will be presenting a panel on "Democratization of IT Infrastru…
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Using the Courts as Your Sales Team for Your Business Method Patents
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…
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Martin Luther King Day
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…