The “Bed Intruder” phenomenon has generated a lot of commentary, plus a hit song. More recently Dobson made a commercial for the Sex Offender Tracker App, which uses GPS and your current location to pinpoint the addresses of sexual offenders in your immediate area.

As Technolog noted:
Expect another week of cultural controversy as we [...]

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The Social Science Research Network is one of the primary ways that most law professors share drafts of their papers.  In many case, they provide access to their published work there as well.  The ability to post draft papers quickly on SSRN and other sites, such as Berkeley Electronic Press, has really changed the pace [...]

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While wandering through the “young teen” fiction section of a local bookstore recently, I noticed a series of supernatural fiction books by author Rachel Hawthorne in the same section as the Stephenie Meyer Twilight books (yes, I had to mention Twilight again sometime, didn’t I?)  While I haven’t read any of Hawthorne’s books, her Dark [...]

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I recently gave a talk called “Search, Speech, and Secrecy: Corporate Strategies for Inverting the Network Neutrality Debate.” We had a spirited discussion, and I learned a good deal from the audience. I proposed more monitoring and regulation for internet intermediaries, but some in the audience would not accept my old analogy [...]

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I think the video speaks for itself (but as embedding was disabled you have to click on the link back to YouTube (below)…

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Those of us with small children may have noticed the recently filed lawsuit by the second actress to voice Dora the Explorer in the popular children’s television show – Caitlin Sanchez.  Hollywood Reporter story here.  After 3 years on the show, Sanchez was “fired” (although that doesn’t seem to be the basis of the claim) [...]

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So, apologies for the self-promotion, but my new book, Virtual Justice, is now on sale in the bookstores.  It was also recently featured in a short segment of NPR’s On The Media, which you can find here.
The book is subtitled “The New Laws of Online Worlds,” and that’s pretty much the topic.  I start [...]

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The Report of the Copyright Principles Project, a working group convened by Pam Samuelson, is now available.
Press release here.
Report here.
On a quick read, the Report appears to be thorough, and reasonable, and balanced. It is also an entirely copyright-centric document. What I mean is that it takes the continuation and refinement of an autonomous system [...]

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