Singularity Law

During the last week there were two articles – one on the Wall Street Journal and one in the Los Angeles Times – about law firm establishing “specialties” in videogame law — as if this was a new field.
The fact is lawyers have been “specializing” in videogame law since the 1980s. When I began working [...]

The following Q&A materials were developed for an internal newsletter at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles. I thought it might be of interest to law students wanting to learn more about the program, and law professor who have students that might be interested in the program. Please feel free to link to this page, or [...]

Man cannot live by legal writing alone. As such, I have decided to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. I can’t start until midnight tonight, and I must complete the novel by the end of November. 50,000 words in 30 days. It won’t be pretty, but should be fun.
The genre will be science fiction, [...]

We have gone through the first eight years of the 21st Century without a coherent federal technology policy. During that time, we have seen investment in research and development in real dollars decline and the federal government basically ignore the value of technology to the U.S. economy and our future.
A recent article by John Mackoff [...]

Law students (and virtually every other kind of student) is under enormous pressure to specialize sooner and sooner. While I specialized early when I was in college, today I see doing so as an enormous error.
Law students need to know a lot about a lot of different areas, not just of law, but history, [...]

When I meet people and tell them I specialize in technology law, they often assume that I must be an earlier adopter of every new geewhiz tech gadget that comes out. But I’m not. I believe in what I refer to as “appropriate technology,” that is, getting the technology you need and what is appropriate [...]

In my last post, I noted that the Internet is incredibly vulnerable to outages at various points where there is little or no redundancy. A recent event seems to indicate that global Internet vulnerability is more serious than I thought. According to news reports, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Internet service providers within the country [...]

Two underwater telephone cables were apparently cut by a ship’s anchor near the port of Alexandria in Egypt on January 30th. According to published reports, Egypt has suffered disruption of 70% of its nationwide Internet network, while India has suffered a 60% disruption. The problem has had a significant impact on European and U.S. east [...]

I am pleased to announce that a new wiki dedicated to Information Technology Law has recently been launched. It is being hosted by the folks that operate Wikipedia and numerous other wikis, and that means that if you are familiar with Wikipedia, the ITLaw wiki will look familiar and operates in exactly the same way.
For [...]

A recent story on News.com indicates that record companies are investing in merchandising, artist management, touring and other companies to boost their slumping revenues from CD sales. Universal Music and Warner Music Group have announced investments in companies specializing in artist management and Web networking.
Whether they can successful do so is still an open [...]