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…
On March 31, 2004, the Federal Court of Canada refused to force 5 internet service providers (“ISPs”) to reveal the identities of 29 anonymous subscribers accus…
Sixteen record companies who own or license copyrights in popular sound recordings in the United States filed a copyright infringement suit against twenty-five…
Robert Novak, former owner of the website Petswarehouse.com, filed a pro se suit against Google, Overture Services, Kanoodle, Judge-for-Yourself.com, and Bioche…
IMS Inquiry Management Systems Ltd. sued competitor Berkshire Information Systems Inc. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York…
On March 12, 2004 a New York District Court asserted jurisdiction over iMesh.Com, Inc., a file sharing company incorporated in Delaware, and its Israel-based su…
The Cyberlaw Clinic has won the first round in its effort to oppose yoga guru Bikram Choudhury's claim to copyright in a sequence of yoga postures. The Hon.…
April 19, 2004- We just received Judge Phyllis Hamilton's Opinion and Order denying Bikram Choudhury's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. This was e…
The United States Sentencing Commission issued its sentencing guidelines for punishing offenses under the CAN SPAM Act. The pdf of the regulations is available…
Monday April 19, 2004 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 80 (Moot Courtroom) Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Chris will speak about the conflict between two fundamental…
Kevin Poulsen looks at recent developments in the DirecTV fight with this article for SecurityFocus.…
Christoph Engemann, new CIS fellow and author of Electronic Government - Vom User zum Bürger, also is up and blogging over at Blogs@CIS. Check out his first ent…
We've received an Order from the District Court setting a case management conference for May 19, 2004.…