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A Win for the Cyberlaw Clinic in DirecTV Case
This week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked satellite television provider DirecTV's heavy-handed legal tactics and protected security and compu…
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Copyright and education
William Patry has an interesting post today about imbalanced educational campaigns directed to children concerning copyright violations. I suppose that one of t…
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'729 Patent on recording live performances 86'd
A rare Inter Partes patent reexamination just emerged from the PTO, cancelling all 5 claims. Patent 6,614,729 issued to Griner, et. al., for a SYSTEM AND METHO…
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From Wifi to Wikis and Open Source
Journal on Law and High Technology (2006) - The Political Economy of Collaborative Production in the Digital Information Age From Wifi to Wikis and Open Sourc…
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Victory In The 10th Circuit: What Enters The Public Domain Stays In The Public Domain
The Tenth Circuit handed us a momentous victory today, holding that the Uruguay Round Agreements Act ("URAA") altered the "traditional contours o…
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Golan v. Gonzales -- The First Amendment Lives!
It's almost midnight here on the east coast, but I'm wide awake -- happily -- because I have some truly *great* news to report. The 10th Circuit just h…
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How lucky people think differently than unlucky people
From a Fast Company interview with Richard Wiseman by Daniel Pink a few years back that my friend Nat Johnson sent me: "What are some of the ways that luc…
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The origins of mistrust
Damien Cave in today's New York Times: "Shatha al-Musawi, a Shiite member of Parliament, first encountered the Sunni-Shiite divide on the day the Ameri…
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BT Responds to Plaintiffs' Opposition to His Fee Motion
The briefing on BT's motion for attorneys' fees is now complete. Last Friday, BT filed his Reply Memorandum in response to Plaintiffs' Opposition t…
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Blowing the Horn
John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen in the March/April Foreign Affairs: "The Greater Horn of Africa, the hottest conflict zone in the world, is a legi…
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Circumvention - a matter of geography
Most of the world seems to know by now how New Jersey teenager George Hotz cracked last week the Apple iPhone protection lock which tethers users to the mobile…
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Reaffirming First Principles of Open Communications Networks
Consumer group comments in the FCC's Broadband Practices Notice of Inquiry demonstrate the failure of the current reliance on a cozy, Telco-Cable duopoly to…