Singularity Law

I bought an iPad for my granddaughter when she was 6 months old. Everyone thought I was crazy. She couldn’t talk yet and had trouble sitting up on her own. Yet, she took to that iPad like a duck to water. She already knew how to swipe it to turn it on from playing with [...]

Increasingly, courts and commentators are expressing frustration over the immunity that websites have for defamatory statements made by anonymous third parties. The victim cannot sue the website owner due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and often cannot identify the third party that defamed them. To add insult to injury, a court recently [...]

I was intrigued by a recent study of the views of entering college freshman done by Beloit College. Many of the items related to technology, such as:
• With cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wristwatch.
• Email is just too slow….
• They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly [...]

The growth of the Internet over the last 15 years has been nothing less than spectacular. Few could have imagined when the U.S. government open up the Internet to individuals and commercial interests that the Internet would be the catalyst for such enormous economic growth. Companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, which couldn’t have [...]

Several people have asked how I generate the tweets that I regularly post on Twitter (under @LawProf, @CopyrightLaw, @InternetLaw and @PrivacyLaw). There is actually no magic to it.
I use Google Reader to help me locate interesting blog entries, news articles, law review articles, etc. I subscribe to slightly more than 500 different blogs, so I [...]

I will be co-chairing an exciting, one-day conference at Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) on Friday, September 18th on Cleantech Law and Policy.
The program will be divided into four panel discussions addressing a variety of topics, including:
1. The New Government Energy Policies and CleanTech’s Opportunities: Incentives and Market Drivers
2. Learning from the [...]

Just slightly less than two years ago, a number of volunteers launched the IT Law Wiki. Their intent was to develop a comprehensive encyclopedia of materials relating to the burgeoning field of information technology law.
The IT Law Wiki has reached an important milestone with the posting of its 5000th article. We are grateful to all [...]

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, [...]