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…
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"Lessig's grim assessment is dead on....[It's] a manifesto that shakes you up, making you aware of how much is lost when a culture turns 'ideas…
"[A]n important book about the counter-revolution produced by the Internet revolution." Books: Leisure reading, Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret News, Decembe…
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. Legal heavy Lawrence…
The Internet Under Siege Courts and corporations are attempting to wall off portions of cyberspace. In so doing, they are destroying the Internet"s potenti…
Europe's "Me-Too" Patent Law Copying US legislation on intellectual property rights threatens to inhibit software innovation, warns Lawrence Lessi…
Open Code and Open Societies (v1.0) Lecture at Free Software, Tutzing, Germany, June 1, 2000 [70 kb PDF]…
Architecting for Control (v1.0) Keynote at IPEF, Cambridge, UK [44 kb PDF]…
Cyberspace's Architectural Constitution (v1.1) Lecture at www9, Amsterdam, June 2000 [73 kb PDF]…
Online Patents: Leave Them Pending Wall Street Journal Subscribers only.…
Innovation, Regulation, and the Internet American Prospect…
The Code in Law and Law in Code (v1.0) Lecture at pcForum 2000, Arizona, March 2000 [34 kb PDF]…