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…
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…
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi & Christian Stüble, Property-based Attestation for Computing Platforms: Caring about properties, not mechanisms, New Security Paradigms…
In the continuing saga of the Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight... From CNN.com: In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its…
Bill Frist actually had the gall to say, "Shame on you, Mr. Kerry," at the Convention, because Kerry suggested that the Administration had banned some…
Per William Saletan: And referring to Kerry's claim that he voted "for the $87 billion [for postwar Iraq appropriations] before I voted against it,&qu…
watched McCain and G. M was dull, and unenthusiastic. The biggest applause line was when he criticized Michael Moore. G was excited and energetic and fun--th…
From an AP report carried by the NY Times: "What sins have I committed to deserve this?'' said Jit Bahadur Khadka, the father of one of those repor…
Both father and spouse of the current President refuse to do the honorable thing, denounce, when asked, the smears of war hero John Kerry. From the LA Times...…
Slashdot carries an interview with WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access…
John Dean has a nice piece arguing that Kerry should sue for defamation, that he can demonstrate the "actual malice" needed for a defamation suit brou…
As one of the main competitors in the international race to protect every sort of investment in intangibles, the EU had adopted the Database Directive in 1996.…