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…
November 28, 2005- "Search Query Use in Murder Case Spawns Privacy Concerns" in Washington Internet Daily. Juries can give too much weight to digital…
Tim Wu Professor, Columbia University Monday November 28, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served Television's now-domin…
My older son is in nursery school now. We’d tried him in daycare for a little while, but he used to get sick so often (and infect us) that he was staying home…
Newspaper circulation has been on a steady decline for the last twenty years. For those of us, like me and Thomas Jefferson, who believe that an informed publi…
Intrepid New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is now offering further indicia of the sad state of the world of big commercial music through investigations un…
THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLATERAL COMMUNICATIONS AND DELIBERATIVE DISCOURSE IN BUIDLING INTERNET-BASED, MEDIA REFORM MOVEMENTS…
Verso Technologies announced their first big deal for their skype-blocking software-- they are selling it to China. They claim that they are just helping Chine…
A year ago, Bram Cohen created the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent makes it easy to download large files quickly because you download pieces of the large file…
I've been thinking quite a bit about forms of government lately. The current 'hot' debate in political theory asks how to reconcile people's in…
This is a recently published opinion in a trademark case involving a dispute over the use of the name “Jupiter Hosting” by Santa Clara, California-based Interne…
In an action brought by three video game businesses, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan preliminarily enjoined the enforcemen…
The city of Madison, Wisconsin uses a computer-based radio system for police, fire, ambulance and other emergency communications. The radio system spreads tran…