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…
The government has filed an objection to the decision of Magistrate Judge Boland ordering discovery to go forward in the case. We will oppose the government…
The government has filed an objection to the decision of Magistrate Judge Boland ordering discovery to go forward in the case. We will oppose the government…
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…