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…
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…
When the world's leading human rights organization calls for a special prosecutor for two specific individuals, Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenet, we should…
... and Microsoft is really willing to add Linux support to Virtual Server 2005, as this news states, it would mark a surprising shift in the business strategy…
Cartoonist Nina Paley is retelling the Ramayana with 1920s music and 21st century animation. Striking.…
The Associated Press quotes CIS Executive Director Jennifer Granick in this article about recovering emails from a Marine's Yahoo! account.…
Salman Rushdie's op-ed today notes the power of the Word, citing scripture and classical works, as well as modern writings: [F]iction does retain the occas…
Unbound, a new student-edited law journal from Harvard Law School shows tremendous promise, at least as indicated by the contributions to its first issue (which…
Commentary on the Directive 2001/29/EC on the Harmonization of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, in: Dreier/Hugenholtz…
Digital Rights Management in the United States and Europe, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 323-382 (2004).…
Michael Berube's new post parodies the complaints now lodged against Roe v Wade: Brown v. Board ... set off a cycle of political viciousness ... that has p…
Non-associated Press Report: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the United States today, and spoke "pretty pointedly" with President Bush…