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…
I’ve just posted my paper on information as IP subject matter. The paper addresses some basic questions about the idea of property-like rights in “information”…
This video was UTTERLY MEZMERIZING to watch. Really an incredible event in modern American politics. Partial transcript: "Part of the reason I accepted…
Our President, last night: "I know how unpopular it is to be seen as helping banks right now, especially when everyone is suffering in part from their bad…
The Brits nail it better than the Daily Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 Amazing how a couple edits and on-the-street interviews can transform…
This morning I received an email from ICAP - Ocean Tomo informing that they are the exclusive broker for about 700 patents in the Walker Digital portfolio. Pre…
I published the first of two pieces on CNET today about interesting and even encouraging developments in Washington over Internet policy. (See “New Year, New P…
Late last year the Obama administration reopened talks with Russia over the militarization of cyberspace and assented to cybersecurity discussion in the United…
What is so amazing about the news that Google will stop censoring search results in China and may pull out altogether, is that the impetus for this has nothing…
Jeffery A. Salter in The New York Times: "In the 1990s, Jaron Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the wonderful possibilities that would be real…
An inside chonicle of the kerfluffle (a.k.a "Tinselgate") over the White House xmas tree, with an ODR emphasis added: "During the first three we…
An interesting tempest in a teapot has emerged this week following some overblown rhetoric by and in response to celebrity causemeister Bono. There’s a deeper l…
An interesting tempest in a teapot has emerged this week following some overblown rhetoric by and in response to celebrity causemeister Bono. There’s a deeper l…