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…
Barack Obama just delivered one of the finest speeches I've ever witnessed. Both personal and universal. It presented to us our most noble selves, and cal…
Early reports indicate that the deficit will be released this Friday. Why Friday? Well, because most of us have better things to do on a weekend than watch th…
Real Networks bravely introduces a new song format that protects the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder but still permits the song to be playe…
In response to the Government's summary judgment motion, we filed a Rule 56(f) motion and affidavit seeking discovery. As our motion states, the Government…
Does Bush's political advisor Karl Rove run the Pentagon? First, the Pentagon buries the Defense Department's self-study of torture and killing by the…
After the European Union had harmonized the copyright term of its Member States' copyright laws to 70 years post mortem auctoris, the United States enacted…
Today's Recorder has an article by Brenda Sandburg about the California Court of Appeals' decision in Grace v. Ebay, a suit seeking to hold eBay liable…
The sale of creditcards.com for $2.5 million disproves the claim that domain names aren't valuable because of the proliferation of TLDs.…
A hilarious piece by Paul Simms in the New Yorker detailing new details of the Cheney/Leahy encounter on the floor of the Senate.…
Every RNC event, corporate sponsor, delegate hotel, war profiteer in Manhattan, along with anti-rnc events, independent media outlets, protest sanctuaries, publ…
I am always impressed by the ability of US politicians to coin catchphrases. While European governments try to sell their e-health initiatives with lengthy argu…
Sandy Berger, loyal American and former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, admits to misfiling papers in the national archives in…