Singularity Law

The newspaper industry is suffering. At least one newspaper is closing down each week in the United States, and this trend is likely to continue unless the industry makes some radical changes in their way of thinking. Unfortunately, those who control most of the newspapers in the United States just don’t get it. These publishers [...]

In the computer field, like any other field, there are “fads.” Some fads are short lived, while others take root and become part of the fabric of the IT business world. Unfortunately, it is difficult to tell sometimes what kind of fad we are talking about. When the Internet was first opened up to “public” [...]

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 [...]

Several weeks ago now, Google announced the settlement of a copyright infringement case filed against it by a group of American publishers who objected to the Google Book Search project. (I recently wrote about the settlement here.) The Google Book Search project has the goal of digitizing virtually every book ever published, and making that [...]

I have written about my law school’s evolving summer program in London (starting in 2009) on International Information Technology Law several time over the last year. (See here and here.) There have been a few wrinkles that had to be ironed out, but I am pleased to announce that the program has been finalized and [...]

In September 2005, Google was sued by the Authors Guild, the American Association of Publishers and a number of individual authors for copyright infringement for its “Google Book Search” project (which was launched in 2004). The plaintiffs claimed that the project was “massive copyright infringement” and should be shut down. Google held the plaintiffs at [...]

“Network neutrality” is a highly charged issue amongst Internet lawyers, business executives, users and government officials. During the formative years of the Internet, the question of whether companies that provided Internet connectivity should treat all users and websites equally was not an issue. It was assumed that they would. Just like the telephone companies treat [...]

“Network neutrality” is a highly charged issue amongst Internet lawyers, business executives, users and government officials. During the formative years of the Internet, the question of whether companies that provided Internet connectivity should treat all users and websites equally was not an issue. It was assumed that they would. Just like the telephone companies treat [...]

In the summer of 2009, Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) will offer a new summer abroad program in London which will focus on international information technology (IT) law. The program will allow students to study cutting-edge legal issues with an exceptional international faculty.
This is the first summer abroad program to focus exclusively on international IT [...]

In a recent filing with a federal court in Minnesota, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) asserts that it should be permitted to recover up to $150,000 per copyrighted movie allegedly traded online using P2P file sharing without having to prove that anyone actually made a copy of that movie. That is in [...]