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Chain-Link Confidentiality
I have just uploaded a new essay about online privacy to SSRN that will appear in Volume 46 of the Georgia Law Review. The essay, titled "Chain-Link Confid…
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Fair Use during submittal of prior art during patent prosecution: John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen
Dennis Crouch today reports on John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. The crux of this case concerns the disclosing and submitting…
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Next week: Concurring Opinions will host a blog symposium on Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
April 25-26: Concurring Opinions will host a symposium on my book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. Needless to say, I am excited and anx…
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Andy Warhol Foundation Requests Argument Time in Cariou v. Prince
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has filed a motion with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit requesting that the court allow…
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Draft Bill to "Fix" CFAA Won't
The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill (.pdf) to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030. I've redlined the current statute (.doc)…
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Robot Block Party 2012
The Center for Internet and Society once again participated in National Robotics Week, organized by the Robotics Caucus of the U.S. Congress and leading robotic…
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Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
I am excited to announce that Oxford University Press has published my book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. It has been almost a deca…
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On Blind Drivers and Base Maps
Google has posted an inspiring video (with audio captions) of a legally blind individual riding in the front left seat of one of its self-driving cars as that c…
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No Way Out But One
In 1994 Holly Collins became an international fugitive, hunted by the FBI after she grabbed her three children and went on the run. Holly felt she had no choice…
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Carnegie Mellon Study on Censorship and Deletion Practices in Chinese Social Media
An interesting study was released earlier this month by a group at Carnegie Mellon University titled “censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.…
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Print Edition of Encyclopedia Brittannica (EB) succumbs to Wikipedia
The news this week that that EB discontinues the print edition of the encyclopedia should not too much of a surprise. This should be seen in a larger context.…
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Driving at Perfection
“Nothing is going to catch this car by surprise…. It’s going to see hundreds of feet in all directions. [You’re] not going to have a pedestrian ‘come out of now…