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…
Imagine that you and 14 others form a committee. Decisions are rendered through majority vote. Your vote will be important, but rarely decisive. But imagine…
From a letter to the editor to the NY Times: To the Editor: America has certainly come to a curious moral impasse. "4 Top Officers Cleared by Army in Pri…
"Lovingly Holding Hands for Oil" COMPETITION ========== EU warns Microsoft to follow '04 order European Union tells company it must compl…
The District Court in Colorado issued a ruling on the parties' pending summary judgment motions. The court granted summary judgment to the government on al…
Last week, the District Court ruled on the parties' pending cross motions for summary judgment. The Court denied Plaintiff's motion for partial summary…
At the end of March, the parties jointly filed a Pretrial Order in preparation for trial in June. A pretrial conference was held before Magistrate Judge Boland…
In February, Plaintiffs filed a summary judgment motion on the Copyright Clause claim. The motion has been fully briefed. Here is the Government's oppositio…
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Whew, sorry for the lack of posts. Besides my usual gap, I had a password snafu, but now I'm back in business without having to start anew. Yea... Severa…
Monday April 25, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 180 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served The ability of service providers, application developers and hardware firms…
さて、続いてPeer to Peer network (P2P)について、Digital Hollywoodで議論されていたことを見てみましょう。 これまた、当然のことも幾つか含まれているのですが、一番印象深かったのは、P2Pに関わる人たちが、だんだん認知されてきた、ということです。（無視せざるを得なくなってきた、と…
そういえば、少し前になりますが、3月30日から4月1日まで、恒例のDigital Hollywoodに今年も顔を出してきました。 いつものように、ビジネスの話、技術の話が中心で、法律の話はあまりないのですが、デジタル著作権を勉強すればするほど、要するにビジネスや技術のことを知らずして著作権のあり方を論じることは出来な…