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 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…
In late 1999 and early 2000, MP3.com sought to provide a service to its users by making available mp3 files of musical compositions. At the time, technology to…
On October 7, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals greenlighted the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to continue implementing the National Do Not Call Registry -- a…
Plaintiff, Brach's Confections, Inc. ("Brach's"), a Delaware corporation with its principal places of business in the Northern District of Ill…
The court in Crown Pontiac addressed whether a preliminary injunction may properly issue against a consumer who incorporates a company’s trade name into a websi…
[Editor's note: What follows is a detailed summation of a case from a non-US jurisdiction. The degree of detail is intended to reflect the technical nature…
[Editor's note: What follows is a detailed summation of the case that may be of limited interest to non-specialists. The degree of detail is intended to ref…
Can't help but notice that our e-mail addresses appear in the form user@NOSPAMstanford.edu over on the left, but they appear unobscured in the RSS feed. Mig…