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…
Hi. Welcome to my first blog. It's the first day of the academic year here, so this seems like an opportune time to get this blog underway... Keep an eye…
Over the weekend, I was at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria (where Creative Commons won a Golden Nica, by the way). The festival is always quite a…
Non-residential Fellow Colette Vogele heads the firm Vogele & Associates advising individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations on a range of intell…
John Fogerty has a new album coming, including the title song whose lyrics are given below. You can hear the song on Fogerty's website. I'm not old en…
A few weeks ago, a District Court in Munich, Germany, upheld an earlier preliminarly injunction according to which the GPL can effectively become part of an agr…
From Slate's roundup of newsweeklies: Time offers an excellent view of the end of the siege at the Imam Ali shrine. A reporter inside Najaf presents a biza…
Just rec'd this from Jack Ayer, who got this from a 78-year-old cousin. "On Monday President Bush said that we can't win the war on terrorism. Ye…
After saying that George Bush is the only person who can defend our national security and telling Democrats that they are traitors for seeking to elect someone…
Markus Hansen, A Double-Edged Blade - On Trusted Computing's Impact on Privacy, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 2004, pp. 525-528.…
The recent Chamberlain v. Skylink decision (see my earlier posting) has produced quite a lot of noise in the blogosphere. Ernest Miller has published the most e…
Over the last two years, cases in which companies used DRM technology and the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA in order to control downstream markets a…
From Richard Cohen's column in the Washington Post: On the very day that George Bush changed his mind and said that the war on terrorism was in fact winnab…