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 Associated Press covers the Diebold case with this article.…
This morning I went up to US District Court in San Francisco expecting a hearing on the motion for a TRO against Diebold sending out frivolous cease and desist…
In an identity theft case, James Rinaldo Jackson pled guilty to 29 counts of criminal activity, including credit card fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2), (b)(1), (c)…
Plaintiff, Electronic Broking Services, Limited (“Electronic Broking”), a British company, has brought suit before the U.S. District Court for the District of M…
Within a few months of the release of America Online, Inc. (AOL) Version 5.0 access software in October 1999, consumers began filing class action lawsuits again…
The plaintiffs in this case were members of several collegiate sports teams who, without their knowledge or consent, were taped by cameras hidden in locker room…
The case rose out of a Minnesota Department of Commerce (“MDOC”) investigation of Vonage, a firm providing voice-over-IP (VoIP) services which allow voice commu…
Amway Corporation (“Amway”) and the Procter and Gamble Company (“P&G”) have a long history of corporate animosity, both publicly and in the court system. Si…
On October 24, 2003, the Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Clara issued a final judgment and injunction in the civil case of People v. Willis…
Traditional copyright law granted public performance license fees to songwriters and composers, but not to the copyright owners of the recording itself, the rec…
National Journal's Technology Today covers the release of Mark Cooper's new book on media consolidation. Download Media Ownership and Democracy in the D…
Stefan Bechtold, The Present and Future of Digital Rights Management - Musings on Emerging Legal Problems, in: Eberhard Becker et al. (eds.), Digital Rights Man…