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…
Southeastern Wisconsin municipalities collect various data regarding properties located on their territory (address, owner’s name, the age of the property, its…
In 1999, Cremers, who was an operator of website Museum Security Network, posted an allegedly defamatory e-mail from Smith, suggesting that Batzel’s art work is…
WhenU.com, Inc. (“WhenU”) makes software that observes what web sites a consumer visits and what terms he or she searches for on the Internet. Based on those o…
I have written before about some interesting aspects of the Digital Media Project. Now they have announced a workshop about how traditional rights and usages of…
In a first-rate showing that law students can geek it out with the best of them, a student (1L?) at Michigan has written up a contract law analysis of Sauron…
The San Jose Mercury News has profiled Jennifer Granick within a series of articles about Silicon Valley business leaders who fly under the radar. Read the stan…
The New York Times is reporting that a recent opinion of the Ninth Circuit, though rejecting a wiretap request on unrelated grounds, leaves the door wide open t…
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a strongly worded opinion holding that the DMCA § 512(h) subpoenas used by the RIAA against Verizon and other ISPs ar…
Our offices are closing (just for the break) but I did not want to leave without reading the Second Circuit's opinion in Padilla v. Rumsfeld, holding that t…
December 19, 2003: San Jose Mercury News on the McDanel victory…
The FCC is beginning a proceeding on removing regulatory impediments to "smart" radio. What makes a radio "smart?" Well, software-defined ra…
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