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…
The dangers of speech crimes. The NYT reports that Zhao Yan, 43, who worked in the newspaper's Beijing bureau, and has spent 15 months in prison without a…
(I'll preface this post by saying the reason I find the circumvention of the FISA Court so intriguing is that in this space, I'm usually complaining abo…
Wow. I had to post again. Talk about mainstream public figures stepping up to the plate. It's not just Clinton-appointed Judges who are outraged by the Ad…
I haven't been blogging because I'm trying to get a paper (ironically on blogging and the First Amendment) finished by the time school resumes. But I&#…
Nicholas Kristof offers an intruiging inside perspective (and astute cross-cultural commentary) in his NYT column today: "Perhaps I'm particularly sen…
Slate is running a contest entitled "Billable Horrors," which, as the title suggests, is a contest where lawyers are asked to submit "the meanest…
So, my trip to London was really fun. I "minded the gap" in the tube and train and stood inside one of the fun red phonebooths: I paid close attentio…
Pre-Grokster, in the Bay Area at least, SBC Yahoo! had billboard ads posted along highway 101 (just south of SF, if I recall correctly) that advertised their hi…
The Brennan Center for Justice has published this study on fair use. It's really well done, and a great resource for anyone interested in understanding the…
The United States District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division recently granted defendant Furnace Brook LLC’s (“Furnace Brook”) motion to dismiss p…
In March 2005, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for documents pertaining to the U.S.…
Plaintiff Michael Price, the head coach of the University of Alabama's football team, sued Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated, and a writer name…