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…
At least in the public sector! Microsoft has announced that it expands its Government Security Program, better known under the name ‘Shared Source”, to its Off…
I am and will be here for the next few days. I have been a regular with this crowd since getting involved in biometrics in 1999 through RAND's project wit…
Jorge Cortell, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, gave a lunchtime talk today entitled "Free culture for all: a sustainable, real example."…
We law students love to talk about fair use, though I confess that for many of us it's a substantially academic concern. Not so for Google, which is driven…
I found some more blotters online: Florida (cont.) Palm Beach County (through the Palm Beach Post) Kansas Johnson County (Booking report) [Inmate search for J…
According to CNet News.com, the major recording studios are asking Microsoft to build a "framework" for copy protected CDs into the next version of th…
I read the Sixth Circuit's opinion in the Bridgebort Music v. Dimension Films case, and all I can say is: huh? I'm really not sure where to start. The…
Real quick hit before David Cole begins his presentation on civil liberties and terrorism "preemption": a gigantic coalition of civil liberties groups…
Where to begin? How about with the big free speech victory in CDT v. Pappert? The decision is a real victory for free speech against overbroad government actio…
Today's article ("Trolls are Back -- In Suits Testing Copyright Restoration Law") by Tresa Baldas in the National Law Journal discusses the Golan…
We filed Plaintiffs' opposition to the government's objections to Magistrate Judge Boland's rulings which allow discovery to proceed forward. Read…
The government wasn't happy about Judge Boland's decision allowing discovery and permitting Plaintiffs to develop evidence to contradict summary judgmen…