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…
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…
March 2nd is Super Tuesday in ten states including California... and it's also a major test of electronic voting technology. Diebold Election Systems, the c…
Nat Hentoff surmises the situation in Guantanamo Bay and calls it "monarchical." From Ghost in the Machine.…
Is it enough to give full compensation to the artists and copyright holders? Or, is it important to give a power to control how their works are used? This is on…
On Tuesday Night I tuned into Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on cable tv. I missed the first half, but it seems the Fab Five took their makeover, Ralph, to a…
Today EPIC filed a Motion to Recalendar the case management conference and to set a briefing schedule so the litigation can commence. We also had to file an Ap…
It appears that in September 2003, the Municipio (Borough/Municipality) of Durango, Mexico, passed regulations aimed at governing the operation of arcades and v…
Do you use the GIMP? You should. It's a fantastic open-source image manipulation program, up there with Photoshop in capabilities. And now a new interface i…
Longhorn Packaging prevailed in a suit initiated in 1999 against Computize for the breach of contract both entered into in order to renew and upgrade Longhorn’s…
In July 2002, National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) and its president Jack Lin (“respondents”) sued former NTS vice-president Brett Schoneman (“appellant”) for…
In June 2003, former priest James Beine, also known as Mar James, was sentenced by a federal district court to nearly 57 months in prison for possessing child p…