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…
With Jake off and about, I'm not sure who to ask technical questions to. If anyone is willing to help -- I'm having trouble with a couple of things --…
2. Topic: Fair Use and Blogging I am also really interesting in looking more into the activities of bloggers and how this could change our concept of fair us…
1. Unpublished Public Domain Project I am starting to gather information from archives and libraries on what steps were taken to obtain copyright on unpublish…
The first entry always seems to be the hardest to write. I've been blogging at typepad this summer on academic copyright issues (http://academiccopyrighgt.…
I came to the topic of copyright within an academic setting from my own doctoral work, initially a biography, which has subsequently turned into a comparative g…
Value-Centered Design of Digital Rights Management - Perspectives on an Emerging Scholarship, contribution to the INDICARE project, September 2004.…
A short article by me that gives an overview of the emerging scholarship of value-centered design approaches towards DRM has been published online here.…
I've been curious about the RFID technology. Here's an article from e-Week re: RFIDs and a brewing patent dispute (thanks Julie for pointing me to it).…
Judge Vaughn Walker (N.D. California) cleared Oracle of alleged antitrust violations regarding its proposed takeover of PeopleSoft. A full read of the lengthy…
This article by Dan Gillmor from yesterday's SJ Merc provides a concise summary of some disturbing legislation that is on the table this congressional term,…
"He wasn't even standing up in the boat when we crossed. In fact, he was hunched over under a blanket, trying to spark his hempweed pipe." Burgess…
The Internet Archive and the Prelinger Archive have filed their opposition to the government's motion to dismiss in Kahle v. Ashcroft, a case challenging th…