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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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Peer to Patent Project
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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Problems with Cell Phone Locking?
Submit your story. We are looking for stories about how cell phone locking is affecting consumers and the public interest. Do you have a story about how lockin…
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Gold Plated Patents
Mark Lemely, Doug Lichtman, and Bhaven Sampat have a sensible proposal in the winter issue of Regulation. They start with the well-known fact that most patents…
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CIS is Hiring!!
SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer…
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More Microsoft Censorship in China
As usual, Rebecca MacKinnon has the best coverage of the current state of censorship in China. She is a must read. Her latest post is on MSNSpaces censorship…
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David Letterman Debates Bill O'Reilly
Video (click big show highlight). My Favorite line from Letterman: I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but I have a feeling about 60% o…
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CIS is talking
Larry Lessig's column in the Financial Times: "Creatives face a closed Net," Jennifer Granick's column in Wired News: Go Back to Afghanistan,…
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Compiling Syllabus for Privacy and Law Class
I'm going to be teaching "Law Technology and Privacy" at the law school this semester. I'm working on pulling together the syllabus and wonde…
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Happy New Year! 2006
皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。 本年もどうぞよろしくお願いします！ 今年は、このBlogも、もう少し頻繁に更新することを目標にします！（笑） さてさて、本当にご無沙汰しておりましたので、ちょっと近況など。 昨年9月に、4年2ヶ月の留学を終えて日本に帰国し、10月から職場に復帰しました。 私が不在の間に二度の合…
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O where o where is that podcasting legal guide she's been promising?
Yes, I'm behind a bit. The trips in December, the holidays, the unexpected workload, yadda yadda, blah blah... alas, I am back on track and we're puttin…
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2005 in music/sales down, RIAA celebrates victory
Online music sales, copyright, media aren't my main focus as a CIS Fellow, but I do burn a fair bit of time exploring the issues. I recently designed some m…
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Mistakes, and why it's ok that we make them
People make mistakes: errors of judgement (say, choosing a vote counting technology that is unreliable or open to fraud); and errors of execution ("pushing…