On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
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 Unpublished Public Domain Project I am starting to gather information from archives and libraries on what steps were taken to obtain copyright on unpublish…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…
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 the co…
The other day I was called by a church that had questions about the status of the copyright in Peter Pan. The church hoped to include Peter Pan as a character…