On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
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…
文化庁が発表した「著作権法に関する今後の検討課題」のうち、まずは２．デジタル対応の（１）デジタル化時代に対応した権利制限の見直しについてみてみましょう。 検討課題は、「キャッシング等通信過程の効率化を目的とする複製、機器内で不可避的に生じる一時的な蓄積（複製）、機器の保守・修理に伴う複製等について、権利制限を拡大する…
Well, I am finally resuming my blog. Sorry for the long break. Actually, I was on a leave for a while. I'll post entries about update on Japanese copyrigh…
Tom DeLay is taking aim at not-arch-conservative-enough Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: “Absolutely. We’ve got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based u…
Open Architecture as Communications Policy with CIS Fellow Mark Cooper on 4/25 in room 180 at 12:30…