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…
Shaking the Foundations 2003 is an annual student-organized conference that brings together law students, practitioners, and academics from around the country w…
I will be speaking on a panel on "Equally in war and in peace: An Examination of Civil Rights in the Wake of 9/11" on 11/9 at Shaking the Foundations…
In case you missed it before the DoJ removed it from its servers, here is the original press release announcing Bret McDanel's [wrongful] conviction. And h…
In the ongoing revolution of how scientific information is being published, major German research organizations have published a Berlin Declaration on Open Acce…
The beautiful and talented Donna Wentworth recently called me a "Stupid Patent Avenger." While I'm usually not tickled when people use the word &…
October 22, 2003: Admission of Bad Conviction Shows Hacking Act Needs Clarity, Lawyer Says, Washington Internet Daily…
There's something weird going on in the implementation of touchscreen technology for voting machines: the company Diebold is making tons of voting machines…
The digital commoners at Swarthmore are speaking out about voting-machine manufacturer Diebold's attempt to use copyright to hide documents that reveal seri…
A few days ago, bIPlog pointed to a New Scientist article on a clever anti-piracy scheme called Fade, distributed by (of all people), Macrovision. Fade is desi…
The appropriate regulatory classification of cable modem services has been disputed for over the last five years. In response to conflicting federal court decis…
VeriSign is a leading provider of Internet security and control services, facilitating on-line communications and commercial transactions. Following the period…
The New York Supreme Court granted summary judgment for defendants and dismissed a libel suit against the author and publisher of Primary Colors, a novel based…