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…
Someone pointed me to Facebook's terms for Member Content posted on the site in it's Terms of Service. Basically, they claim a non-exclusive license for…
I attended this talk by Natali Helberger of the Institute for Information Law yesterday at SLS. She spoke about consumer protection and copyright, and discussed…
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…
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…
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…