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…
The Copyright Office announced today that it will be holding roundtable discussions about the Orphan Works issues. Here are the details from the announcement:…
I loved Linda Stone’s presentation at Supernova 2005 about “Continuous Partial Attention” – focusing on how we will manage all the incoming information (from ou…
I have been attending Supernova 2005 in SF this week and it’s been, in a word, connected. That’s the theme of the conference, but it’s also amazing for me to s…
Recently, the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided that enforcing a speed limit on a rental car by a GPS-based system is illegal. Decision is here.…
Since June 1. 70.000 so called 'e-cards' are delivered daily to Austrias citizens. By the end of the year all 8 million austrian people will be issued t…
Recently, the Best Practices Committee of the TCG published a document entitled "Design, Implementation, and Usage Principles for TPM-Based Platforms"…
法と経済学の分野で活躍しているGordon教授の論文として最後にご紹介するのは、価格差別（Price discrimination)に関する論文です。 価格差別というのは、ミクロ経済学で、市場での独占（Monopoly)、または独占にまで至らなくともある程度の市場支配力（Market Power）がある場合に、商品の…
今日は、著作権の判例をひとつご紹介しましょう。論点は、「電子透かしは、本当に裁判所で証拠能力があるのか？」という点です。 2005年2月に、第10控訴裁判所で判決がひとつ出ています。 Palladium Music, Inc. v. EatSleepMusic, Inc., 398 F.3d 1193 (10th C…
I was asked by a friend whether digital watermarking is really effective as court evidence, so I did a quick research. There is one case recently decided (Feb.…
In this entry, I will explain about the second category of issues listed as topics in the Japanese Copyright Reform by the Copyright Council. (See, for details…
Fair Use（その他の例外規定）が、市場の失敗（Market failure)のうち、中でも取引費用（Transaction cost)の問題を解決している、という考えを出発点にして、著作物のMass Online取引が期待されるようになってくるにつれ、次のような主張がなされるようになってきました。 Fair U…
さて、先ほどの宣言どおり、少し路線を変えて、読んだ論文で面白いものの簡単な紹介などしてみたいと思います。 最近、日本でも注目を集めつつある、法制度の経済学的分析（Law & Economics)で、著作権関連の分野で活躍している米国の学者の一人に、Wendy J. Gordonがいます。彼女のPublicat…