On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
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…
近頃、米国のデジタル著作権の分野で、相次いで、著作権の強制許諾制度的な提案がなされています。Neil Netanelの論文、Terry Fisherのもうすぐ出版予定の本「Promise To Keep」の第6章、Raymond Ku、Jessica Litmanのドラフトなど、皆それぞれ提唱する制度の範囲や条件が多少…
The Treasury Department sent out several letters interpreting the editing of Persian poetry as "aiding and abetting the enemy." Yes, really. Apparentl…