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…
Over the last few months, alternative compensation systems, in particular levy systems, have become a new focus of the copyright debate. Personally, I think tho…
CIS Residential Fellow Elizabeth Rader is quoted in this front-page article from the San Francisco Chronicle about her work on the Open Source Yoga case. Find o…
Today the San Francisco Chronicle ran a nice story about the Open Source Yoga Unity case. It's hard to write a story about a mediation that's confiden…
There are two main policies to increase the welfare of the society, as Prof. Lessig pointed me out a while ago. This idea itself is not new at all. It is mor…
この4月から、日本でもいよいよロースクールがスタートします。 そこで、少しずつ、私のいるStanford Law Schoolの様子などをお伝えすることで、皆さんのご参考になれば、と思います。 今日は、教材配布のためのWebpageについてです。 Stanford Law SchoolのWebシステムは、私が在学して…
このblogを始めたきっかけ、目標などを少し書きますね。 Blogは、面白そうだけど大変そうだなぁ、という印象があったのですが、実際に立ち上げを決心した動機のひとつは、私の指導教授のLarry Lessig教授の強いお勧めがあったことです。（ちなみに、LarryというのはLaurenceのニックネームです。全然余談で…
今日から、こつこつと、Blogに考えたことをUpしていきたいと思います。 コメントをいただけると、とっても励みになるので、宜しくお願いします！ いきなり、技術的なご相談。このBlogは、movable typeを使っているのですが、日本語のサポートが完全でないらしく、エントリーを再構築するときに、日本語の文字が数字の…
Audio clips from our CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure conference are now online in RealAudio format. You can find them here.…
Let me tell you about my project. I am writing my doctoral dissertation on how the copyright regime in the digital age should be like (well, a very popular top…
Thanks to Wendy Seltzer, I was able to listen to an MP3 of the MGM v. Grokster argument, (CIS is a co-counsel to Grokster). I would have loved to go in person…
Let me tell you the aim and hopes of starting this blog. Part of the reason why I started this blog is because my advisor, Larry Lessig, encouraged me to do so…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling reversing and remanding the lower court's convinction.…