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…
Yesterday the CIS and the Berkman Center collaboratively hosted a workshop on ID-Management centered around Microsofts proposal for an ID-Metasystem. Except a c…
Professor Lemley's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today on copyright law in the post-Grokster world contains a good summary of the question…
Kevin Maney at USA Today had an interesting article last week on the backlog at the PTO caused by insufficient numbers of patent examiners who are unable to kee…
These days, trying to figure out where a friend might be registered can lead you anywhere on the Internet. So it is tonight that such a search lead me to my ve…
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is looking to hire a Webmaster/ Interaction Designer, responsible for maintaining, updating, and e…
There is no blog-type software-bugs-are-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse commentary needed for this. Just check out these pictures, courtesy of CNet. Is this just pla…
According to vnunet.com, a member of the band Switchfoot published information about how to bypass digital rights management (DRM) technology for their most rec…
To anyone even remotely familiar with blogging, websites etc its pretty obvious that a blog isn't a formal statement by the blogger on ANYTHING. Even more…
CNet reports a CORRECTION to the Reuters story discussed below; I reproduce it in full: Correction: This story was misleading in its description of eDonkey'…
How could I forget such cataclysmic news? My sincere apologies. The Yanks -- my beloved underdogs -- are back in first place. It'll be an interesting run…
A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that the pace of the growth of broadband's usage slowed in the first six months of 2005,…
I guess it should be no surprise, in the wake of the US Supreme Court's Grokster decision and its endorsement of an "inducement" theory of liabili…