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 European Court of Justice interpreted and clarified the scope of the sui generis right (a custom-made legislation) in database as provided for in the Direct…
District Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the Northern District of California has granted the government’s motion to dismiss Kahle v. Ashcroft. Judge Chesney rejected…
The New York Division of Tax Appeals considered whether a petitioner had demonstrated that a tax software error was a reasonable cause, and not willful neglect,…
Plaintiff, Perfect 10, Inc, is a California corporation providing adult entertainment services, including a magazine and website featuring nude models. Perfect…
CIS Fellow Elizabeth Townsend speaks about Assessing the Arrival of the Unpublished Public Domain in the Internet Age on 2/21 at 12:30 in room 180.…
Congress has been investigating, with strong Republican support, the UN-administered Oil for Food program. But Republican concern for mismanagement of the Iraq…
Another day, another scandal revealed--and--to be--quickly forgotten. If bagloads of cash (in $100,000 bricks) had been delivered to Democratic party supporter…
From ABC's The Note: "On Sunday, the Washington Post's Marc Fisher profiled Maya Keyes, the daughter of former Senate and presidential candidate Al…
Monday February 14, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 230 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Many patents granted by the government are undeservingly issued. They is…
Net Dialogue, a joint project between Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, on Monday announ…
Juan Cole offers this rhetorical question in his derision of Jonah Goldberg, who speaks confidently on TV about Iraq every week: If you saw an hour-long piece…
A sculpture in Chicago's new Millennium Park is off limits to photographers. Here's the Slashdot account: The City of Chicago recently completed a $47…