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…
This is the Open Architecture as Communications Policy document.…
I'm delighted that I will be teaching a class in the fall in Stanford's computer science department. Its goal is to teach computer scientists and engin…
The Washington Post rebuts Rumsfeld's assertion that media criticisms of the Bush Administration's abetting of torture helps the enemy in a head-on edit…
In a forthcoming Article, Madhavi Sunder and I analyze the exploitation of the public domain. The Creative Commons is an important project to create a public d…
A NY Times story finally exposes the shaky foundation of our flouting of U.S. and international law in Guantanamo--that we're saving American lives by stopp…
In Fahrenheit 9/11, "[o]ne disturbing vignette shows Bush in a Florida elementary school, dumbstruck upon learning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with…
The winning entry in MoveOn.org's competition for anti-Bush ads is a sobering reminder of what this election is about.…
P2PNet, Slashdot, The New Jersey Star-Ledger, and the Associated Press are reporting on DirecTV's recent agreement with the EFF and the CIS Cyberlaw Clinic.…
Tim Berners-Lee receives the Finnish government's Millennium Technology Prize of a million Euros ($1.2 million). Thanks, Tim, from all of us!…
Cancel my trip to Los Angeles for defendant's deposition, we've just learned that Manatt Phelps & Phillips, right here in Palo Alto, will be Bikram…
Lawrence Lessig and his legal team are asking for your help. Kahle v. Ashcroft is a lawsuit that challenges changes to U.S. copyright law that have created a la…
My day two at WOS started with a session by public libary activists giving information on their efforts to preserve computer games. While gaining recognition fr…