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…
TCG has published a short reply and Q&A to the European Article 29 Working Party report. There is not a whole lot of new information in there, though.…
CIS Residential Fellow Chris Sprigman is featured on today's New York Times Op-Ed page. Check out his recommendations for the Kerry campaign here.…
報道によると、政府は、音楽CDの輸入権と書籍の貸与権を新たに導入することを3月4日に決定し、5日に閣議決定することになりました。 この方針は、昨今の知的財産国家戦略の一環として、今年の1月に文化審議会の著作権分科会報告書（概要）で提言されたことに基づき、2月中旬に法律改正案が発表され、明日の閣議決定、という運びです。…
Mendocino County passed the first anti-GMO law in the US on Tuesday. Even though it will not have any immediate effect on that county (since no one is growing…
Friedman has an op-ed in the NY Times today about what he calls the 3rd wave of globalization, characterized by decentralization of services--re: exporting jobs…
On Wednesday the U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, legislation to replace the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel system with a more affordable and efficient system…
Dam Things From Denmark and Russ have settled a long-running copyright dispute over restored copyrights in troll dolls. Here's the press release via Yahoo!…
The U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, the CARP Reform bill, yesterday. 406 to zero. There is no companion bill in the Senate, but no doubt there soon will be. The…
The Clinic filed comments on behalf of the NACDL and the EFF on the CAN-SPAM Act on March 1. The comments argue that the Commission’s proposed guidelines and s…
The Ethics of P2P Filesharing with SLS Professors Lessig and Rhodes on Monday 3/8.…
Well, I spend some time these days looking for my next job, and a search for "copyright" on lawjobs.com brought up this one.. Entertainment Trade Ass…
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the UC Santa Barbara is donating a patent on a treatment for schistosomiasis to the Institute for One World Healt…