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…
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…
This is Google engineer Nelson Minar's visualization of where people did the most Google Maps searching on April 6th, 2005. Update: Here's the source.…
Monday April 18, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 230 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Board a city bus, pass a bank building, or drive through a toll point - the…
Privacy by Design with Elaine Newton. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 230 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served…
Neil Squillante writes to announce a new blog--TechnoLawyer. Check it out. Useful because it includes practical advice on technical tools for lawfirm offices,…
From Slashdot, a report that Nine Inch Nails has made a single available as a GarageBand file for fan remixes. Maybe someone could put a disco beat to Nine Inc…
Apple's new operating system upgrade includes a powerful search facility. Apple explains why its search facility is superior to those recently offered by G…
At the site of one of our internment camps is a small bookstore stocking, of all things, a defense of internment. Is this required by the First Amendment? Pho…
The NY Times editors describeNepal as on the verge of becoming a failed state, and ask the U.S. to support Britain and India as they pressure the Nepalese king…