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Townsend's patent reform roundtable

Last evening I attended the first of three patent reform roundtable discussions being hosted by Townsend and Townsend and Crew. The Townsend attorneys, Ted Her…

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Internet and Society News -- 050120

"Losing Our Respect for the Truth for Over 39 Years" COMPETITION ========== Perjury Charged In Antitrust Inquiry Ex-Department Store Execu…

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Opening Brief Filed

Today we filed the appellant's opening brief in the Ninth Circuit.  The brief argues that, starting with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress changed the fundam…

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Jailed for a song

This is the ad for a new IPac campaign... Read more about it here and about IPac here.…

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2nd term song by Jibjab

Just in time for the inauguration Jibjab is at it again with a good little jingle about the next 4 years...…

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Yiddish with Dick and Jane under fire

I just learned of what sounds to be an interesting lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by the owners of the Dick and Jane copyright, Pearson Education.  Evidently, Pe…

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New Year, New Proposals

If you're checking-in to read this blog, thank you for hanging in with me.  I went away on a long trip over the holidays to India (among other places). Thi…

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Talk on trusted computing

On March 28, 2005, I will give a talk on the legal and policy implications of trusted computing at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. M…

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Internet Radio case decided

The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…

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We lose.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…

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DRM book

For the German readers: my doctoral dissertation on DRM, which was published in 2002, has been out of print for some time. But now the publisher has agreed that…