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Library of Congress: Fair Use Lets You Jailbreak Your iPhone
The Library of Congress dropped a bombshell today in the form of new exemptions from the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. The biggest splash of all wa…
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After the cyberlaw deluge, another deluge
If I ever had any hope of “keeping up” with developments in the regulation of information technology—or even the nine specific areas I explored in The Laws of…
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Law & Order: Sheet Music Task Force
A few weeks ago, composer Jason Robert Brown blogged about his campaign against online sheet music traders, including an interesting email exchange between him…
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The Boundaries of Privacy Harm
My new paper explores what is unique about privacy harm. How does privacy harm differ from other injury? And what do we gain by defining its boundaries and co…
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Two Presentations
Video of two recent presentations of mine are now on the web, just in case you might not have been able to catch them in person. Here's a talk I did last w…
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What lurks within the Notice of Inquiry on Title II?
Better late than never, I’ve finally given a close read to the Notice of Inquiry issued by the FCC on June 17th. (See my earlier comments, “FCC Votes for Recla…
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Justice Stevens and the IP Windmills: Bilski and a Last Tilt
I dashed off a quick analysis of the Bilski decision for CNET yesterday (see “Supreme Court Hedges on Business Method Patents”), a follow-up to a piece I…
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cyberbullying
Jan Hoffman in the NYT today: "The seventh-grade guidance counselor says she can spend up to three-fourths of her time mediating conflicts that began onli…
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Viacom v Google: Who is the Least Cost Avoider?
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to say a few things about the District Court’s decision in the Viacom v. YouTube case this week and. This will be a four-…
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ACTA Communique: “ACTA is the predictably deficient product of a deeply flawed process”
Representatives from the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand will convene this Monday in Lucerne for the Ninth round of A…
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Apply Now: CIS Seeks Affiliates, Fellows
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society seeks scholars and practitioners interested in a formal affiliation with the Center for the 2010-2012 academic year…
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They've got to want it
Friedman in the NYT today: "Why do we have to recruit and train our allies, the Afghan Army, to fight? That is like someone coming to you with a plan to re…