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…
Several of us are in Prof. Tony Reese's excellent class "Property and Contract Go High Tech." The gist of the course is that every week, a new spe…
Microsoft's patent to their FAT file system was rejected by the USPTO today... [Groklaw] Pending appeal, there are going to be a lot of pissed off businesse…
You've probably already heard about the Sixth Circuit's decision in Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films, holding that even a small amount of unauthorize…
The AP (via CNN) is reporting that "U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down a provision of the Patriot Act that authorizes the FBI to force Internet…
Part of everyone's favorite Patriot Act was struck down today, namely the part about the FBI access to what should be confidential communications records. […
So I guess the Swiss have an operational data archiving network utilizing quantum cryptography for security. For those who have not followed the crypto revoluti…
So today I won a prize. A mini-iPod. It is quite the toy, however, I run this strange, mystical operating system called Linux, that Apple seems to pretend doesn…
BayFF Event - "E-voting and the Upcoming Election" on Tuesday, October 12 at 7pm Sometimes activism can be fun. Come join EFF at the 111 Minna Galler…
A federal judge in Texas lets loose on counsel in an absolutely fantastic opinion. A must-read.…
LibraryLaw Blog: Locking up Hemingway about unpublished short story from 1924 not being able to be pub b/c of lit executors + CTEA.…
At a hearing on February 3, 2004, the Court denied defendant's motion for fees and costs under the California Anti-SLAPP statute. In reaching it's deci…
still have tech problems -- new posts at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com on duration (charts that are helpful) and more on the MT papers and the unpublishe…