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…
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…
Napsterization…
bIPlog: Berkeley Intellectual Property Blog…
Information Security Magazine has named CIS Fellow Phil Zimmermann security's Best Problem Solver.…
Sunday night I went up to 111 Minna Gallery for Creative Commons's one year anniversary bash. It's inspiring to see how people are using the cc licens…
As noted elsewhere, the big anniversary party for Creative Commons happened last night in SF. A fancy new Flash movie (7mb) and some great discussion re CC'…
Wired News quotes Jennifer Granick in an article about the Robolympics, a robotic sporting event under threat from the United States Olympic Committee for the u…
Pennie & Edmonds, one of the biggest intellectual property firms in New York, announced today that it will be closing its doors New Year's Eve. Many la…
Thanks to some Swedish guy on Greplaw for that expression but this is a new level of chutzpah. From Derek Slater...Johns Hopkins University never got a C&D…