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Noble / Nobel
Our President: "Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the wo…
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Breaking Congress
Ezra Klein interviewing Stenny Hoyer in the Washington Post: "This is a United States Senate that has had more cloture votes in one year than in the '…
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Isn't It Ironic? The Fourth Estate's Assault on Free Speech
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s…
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Patent law goes to Hollywood
I have seen several posts (here, here, and also here) that discuss a recent patent infringement lawsuit filed late November to the DC District Court. Bloggers f…
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Reasonable Doubts for the FTC's Privacy Conference
Initial reports of the FTC's privacy and technology conference, which began today, suggest that the speakers are leaning heavily toward the apocalyptic. Th…
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Who Will Be Legally Responsible For Our New Robot Overlords?
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in Above the Law's blog post on robotics and legal responsibility: It’s…
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Audio/Video Of Robotics And The Law Panel
You can now find both the audio and the video of our panel on robotics and the law on the Stanford Law School website. See also my recent blog post. Here are…
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Shmeat
As long time readers know, I am a passionate advocate for in-vitro meat production. Who knows if we'll see it in my lifetime -- even Winston Churchill said…
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Leaving the Right
Two very interesting posts on the interwebs from conservative voices this week. First, from Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs entitled "Why I part…
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Side A: DJs Win Laptops Back
Following a hearing in the San Francisco Superior Court today, DJs and party guests Justin Credible and Matthew Higgins had their illegally seized laptops retur…
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Net Neutrality: War of the Words
The debate over net neutrality is rapidly devolving into a war of the words--increasingly, words that take the form of hyperbole. Case in point: as reported l…
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Robotics & The Law: Liability For Personal Robots
I’m in the middle of writing a paper on liability for harm caused by (or with) personal robots. The paper grows out of a panel that Dan Siciliano and I organiz…