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…
I understand Hollywood's concern over lost revenue from file-sharing of movies. But this seems perhaps a bit draconian? The New York Times reports that &q…
The DirecTV litigation machinery continues to turn with the company now having sued over 25,000 individuals. Although the DTV has been accused of using “litiga…
Can you imagine dating in the days before Google? How would you find out anything about your counterpart? I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I have…
The last (and first) time I blogged, I thought I was taking a semi-clever jab at the whole blogging establishment. But not only did certain other people expres…
I don't have any links to post in line with my text, so hopefully my native wit will suffice to entertain you. Whoever "you" are. Anyway, things…
I was struck by a quote in this story in the NY Times on the shutting down of Grokster. According to the chairman and chief executive of the National Music Publ…
When Yahoo turned over information that helped the Chinese government imprison a local journalist for disclosing information about dissident action, it claimed…
Deliighted to be here with all of you. What an honor to be invited in. I'm still reeling. Well, a good place to start with is Kofi from the Washington Po…
The Washington Post reported this weekend that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 National Security Letters a year, according to government sources, a hundredf…
Monday November 7, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served From the plays of Aristophanes in ancient Athens, and the writing…
The Commission has adopted [Official Journal of the European Union L 276 Volume 48, 21 October 2005] a recommendation to improve EU-wide copyright licensing for…
Shoshona Zuboff and James Maxmin wrote The Support Economy. The subtitle is "Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism.&q…