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| Aug 28, 2026 | The Supreme Court needs to remind Trump he has no power over elections (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday allowing President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting to go forward is stunningly insensitive to the context: Trump is trying to... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Across the country, federal judges are calling out Department of Justice lawyers, questioning in unprecedented ways whether they can be trusted ... |
| May 25, 2026 | Пиратство, копирайт и DMCA: как Napster, The Pirate Bay и YouTube изменили закон. Часть II | Мы продолжаем рассказывать про то, как формировались нормы защиты авторского права в интернете в начале нулевых годов. В первой части мы подробно разобрал кейс Napster. В этой подробно расскажем про The Pirate Bay и другие проекты.Как эволю... |
| May 7, 2026 | Пиратство в эпоху VHS: как Universal судилась с Sony и почему последствия этого спора мы ощущаем и в наши дни | Реклама Betamax в 1970-ые
Когда вы загружаете видео на YouTube или нажимаете кнопку «запись» во время стрима, за этим стоит историческое решение Верховного суда США, принятое в 1984 году с минимальным перевесом голосов. Дело Sony Corp. of A... |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Илон Маск против Микки Мауса: почему авторское право стало тормозом прогресса | Содержание
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2. Как и зачем появилось авторское право?
3. Когда все пошло не так? Закон Микки Мауса и расширение границ защиты
4. Последствия для культуры
5. Заключение и AGI
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| Dec 16, 2025 | Hegseth says he won’t publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and BEN FINLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a U.S. military strike that kil... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | ‘It hurts all of us’: Mass deportations ensnare immigrant service members, veterans and families | By HANNAH PSALMA RAMIREZ/News21
PHOENIX (AP) — Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park kept in mind a warning from an immigration officer: If Donald Trump were elected, Park would likely be at risk for ... |
| May 14, 2025 | 80% of America’s Most Popular Media Shows Have Spread Climate Misinformation, Shows Analysis | 6 Mins Read From Joe Rogan to Jordan Peterson, most of the US’s most popular ‘new media’ figures have spread false or misleading information about climate change.
A third of Americans now listen to a podcast at least once a week, and about ... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Supreme Court To Hear Debate On Challenge To TikTok Ban | Share
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The issue pertaining to TikTok’s future in the United States will be heard orally by the Supreme Court on Friday; the well-known app may be banned as early as next week.
TakeAway Points: The justices will consi... |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Russia May Have Committed War Crimes by Hacking Ukraine's Critical Infrastructure, ICC Starts Probe | By John Lopez
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched an investigation into alleged Russia... |
| May 16, 2024 | Berger Montague Shareholder Joshua Davis Wins Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling in Harrow v. Department of Defense | PHILADELPHIA, May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is pleased to announce that the United States Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 in favor of Stuart Harrow in Harrow vs Department of Defense, a case argued by Berger Montague shareholder ... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules | Enlarge
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On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court trials, according to a Reuters report. The US Judicial Conference's... |
| Mar 31, 2024 | Women in AI: Brandie Nonnecke of UC Berkeley says investors should insist on responsible AI practices | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments 3.12.24 | SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced his nomination of two Court of Appeal Justices: Judge Tara Desautels as an Associate Justice of the First District Court of Appeal, Division Two and Justice Gonzalo Martinez as Presiding Ju... |
| Dec 8, 2023 | How to report your gender-affirming legal name change to the major credit bureaus | JUMP TO Section
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| Oct 17, 2023 | A Berkeley law professor is telling law firms not to hire his antisemitic students | University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images
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| Sep 20, 2023 | The vicious cycle of homeowners insurance: It's increasingly expensive to protect homes in the disaster-prone areas that need it most | Extreme weather events are causing changes in the insurance industry. CHKnox/Getty Images
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More US insurers are rethinking coverage in certain disaster-prone regions. The cost to insure homes in areas like hurricane-prone Florida ... |
| May 3, 2023 | The First Step To Carbon Neutral Is Learning How The System Works | Shashi Menon is CEO of EcoEngineers, a carbon advisory and consulting firm helping companies navigate the clean energy landscape. |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Greenberg Traurig’s Erica Okerberg Speaks at 8th Annual Berkeley Law Sports & Entertainment Conference | LAS VEGAS (PRWEB) March 28, 2023
Erica L. Okerberg, vice chair of the Global Gaming Practice of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will be a panelist at the 8th Annual Berkeley Law Sports & Entertainment Conference April 7 at the Bancroft Hotel in... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | After Yale And Harvard Law Schools Leave U.S. News Rankings, Stanford, Columbia, Others Follow | After Yale and Harvard Law Schools withdrew from the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings last week, the law schools of Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown and Berkeley announced their departures. |
| Nov 5, 2022 | US midterms: Why abortion never gets old as a hot election topic | Fifteen years ago, I had an abortion in the southwestern Turkish town of Fethiye, where I had been intermittently residing as part of my self-imposed exile from the United States. The procedure was performed in a gynaecological clinic by a ... |
| May 9, 2022 | Wherein The Copia Institute Reminds California’s New Privacy Agency That Its Regulations Need To Comport With The First Amendment | Last week the recently formed California Privacy Protection Agency held “pre-rulemaking stakeholder sessions” to solicit input on the regulations it intends to promulgate. I provided the following testimony on behalf of the Copia Institute.... |
| May 7, 2022 | How States and Congress Can Prepare for a Looming Threat to Freedom of Speech | After months of deliberation, last week the Supreme Court declined the most recent chance to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 case that requires public officials to meet a high bar to succeed in a defamation lawsuit.
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| Feb 20, 2022 | How free speech is under attack in the U.S. | When someone says something we disagree with, should we shut them up? In 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had an answer: "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
Well, in that case, the internet s... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Appeals Court Can Rule That DMCA's Anti-Circumvention Rules Are Unconstitutional | As you hopefully know, there are two main parts to the DMCA law that was passed in 1998. There's DMCA 512, which is what you hear about most of the time. That's the part that includes the rules for notice and takedown regimes for user uploa... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Appeals Court Can Rule That DMCA's Anti-Circumvention Rules Are Unconstitutional | As you hopefully know, there are two main parts to the DMCA law that was passed in 1998. There’s DMCA 512, which is what you hear about most of the time. That’s the part that includes the rules for notice and takedown regimes for user uploa... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Specters of Fear and Executive Power | A review of David M. Driesen, “The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power” (Stanford University Press, 2021).
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A “specter,” according to Merriam-Webster, is “a visible disembodied spirit, a ghost; something that... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Global Trends in Battery Innovation & Funding | Creating efficient and more environmentally friendly energy storage is a key component in the fight against climate change. Particularly in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) space, there is a need to develop an alternative to lith... |
| Jan 25, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: How Much of The Quantum Tech Boom is Just Welfare for Physicists? | That’s the question I had after reading Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, by Chris Hoofnagle and Simson Garfinkel. It’s a gracefully written and deeply informative look at the commercial and policy prospects of quantum computing and sever... |
| Dec 3, 2021 | Greenberg Traurig's James DeCarlo To Participate in Patent Law Conference | STANFORD, Calif. (PRWEB) December 03, 2021
James J. DeCarlo, a shareholder in the Intellectual Property and Technology (IP) Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, will speak on a panel titled “Ethical considerations in fee shift... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Q&A: What Overturning Prop 22 Could Mean for the Future of the Gig Economy | Labor advocates got a major win last month when a California Superior Court judge ruled Proposition 22—the controversial ballot initiative that allowed ride share companies to keep classifying drivers as independent contractors rather than ... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | If You Want to Be an Unforgettable Presenter, Master These 4 Techniques | April 19, 2021 5 min read
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Regardless of your industry or title, you’re going to have to give a presentation at some point in your career. It doesn’t matter whether you love the ... |
| Apr 10, 2021 | The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post | Benjamin Wittes announced the first episode of Lawfare’s new podcast series, entitled “After Trump.” The series is based on Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith’s book “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” which was published by Lawfare las... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | The ninth day of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin focused on medical testimony about the cause of George Floyd’s death, writes the New York Times. Among those testifying was Martin Tobin, a veteran lung doctor, who stated Floyd’s death was... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | A Broader Look at Privacy Remedies | Divisions over private right of action and federal preemption have long gridlocked efforts to enact federal consumer privacy legislation. Cameron Kerry and John Morris have outlined nuanced proposals for resolving both issues here on Lawfar... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Noteworthy 2021 College Commencement Speakers Begin To Be Announced | Anthony Fauci and Bryan Stevenson are each already scheduled to speak at four different college ... [+] commencements this spring. getty |
| Dec 12, 2020 | What underground abortions could look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned | A demonstrator holds up an abortion flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washing... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | We Are Women: Hear Us Roar (Before We Quit) | Last week, the latest Women in the Workplace report by McKinsey and LeanIn.org was released, ironically coinciding with the death of Australian singer Helen Reddy, who was famous for her Grammy-winning hit “I Am Woman: Hear Me Roar.” |
| Sep 23, 2020 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Dumpster Fire in Cyberspace | John Yoo, Mark MacCarthy, and I kick off episode 329 of the Cyberlaw Podcast diving deep into what I call the cyberspace equivalent of a dumpster fire. There is probably a pretty good national security case for banning TikTok. In fact, Chin... |
| Sep 13, 2020 | Would The Use Of Chemical Dispersants In Mauritius Oil Spill Be Considered An Ecocide? | 2 Sep 2020: Mauritian fishermen employed by Floch Depollution clean the jetty from the Wakashio oil ... [+] spill in Bois des Amourettes, Mauritius.AFP via Getty Images |
| Aug 5, 2020 | With a new coronavirus relief package underway, the government must implement proper screening | A Florida man was arrested last week for using his Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan to buy a Lamborghini, vacations in high-end Miami resorts and designer clothes. He falsified the number and salaries of his employees to receive $3.9 ... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Corporations Not Happy Innovators Have 'Hacked' The Crappy U.S. Binding Arbitration System | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers' legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Corporations Not Happy Innovators Have 'Hacked' The Crappy U.S. Binding Arbitration System | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers’ legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Happy Birthday, Statute of Anne | Early in my legal career I had the opportunity to attend a conference in London organized to celebrate the launch of the Copyright History project. The goal of this project was to translate, annotate, analyze, and even just simply make avai... |
| Feb 4, 2020 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 237: How Privacy Laws Harm Criminal Defendants | Privacy laws are often well-intentioned, but rarely without terrible unintended consequences. And some of these fly right under the radar, like the fact that various privacy laws have made it harder for defense teams in criminal trials to a... |
| Oct 31, 2019 | The Executive’s Privilege: Rethinking the President’s Power to Withhold Information | What is “executive privilege”? In the specific context of information disputes between the executive branch and Congress, the Supreme Court has never addressed—let alone answered—that question. Nevertheless, as the Trump administration repe... |
| Jul 25, 2019 | The Most Prosecuted Federal Offense in America: A Primer on the Criminalization of Border Crossing | Overview
The federal statute criminalizing illegal entry into the United States, 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), has become an unlikely focus of the Democratic presidential primary. During the first round of debates, Julián Castro called for decriminal... |
| Mar 5, 2019 | Startup Law A to Z: Customer Contracts | Your startup needs customers to survive. If and when you make sales or generate installs, you are wading into the fast moving stream of commerce and exposing yourself to risk. Well-drafted customer contracts limit your liability and create ... |
| Mar 4, 2019 | The Tyranny Of Copyright: How A Once-Humble Legal Issue Has Tormented A Generation Of Speech | Scott Burroughs, one half of the named partners at the law firm Doniger Burroughs, seems to want to build up a reputation as one of the go to voices for pushing the most absurd copyright theories out there. You may recall Doniger Burroughs ... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | The Express Rail Co-location Case: The Hong Kong Judiciary’s Retreat | In his Taiwan policy speech on January 2, 2019, People's Republic of China President Xi Jinping referred to the use of the “One Country, Two Systems” policy—previously deployed in Hong Kong and Macau—as a means to unify China with Taiwan. T... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | "It is critical to understand the nuances of Silicon Valley inspired venture financing" | |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 161: How One Court Just Screwed Up Software Development | We’ve already written about the insanity of the appeals court overturning Google’s fair use victory against Oracle — but there’s plenty to dig into regarding just how bad the ruling is. This week, we’re joined by law professor Pamela Samuel... |
| Mar 5, 2018 | International Law and Cyberspace: Evolving Views | On Feb. 13, our colleague Robert Chesney flagged the upcoming Cyber Command legal conference titled “Cyberspace Operations in the Gray Zone.” The conference—which begins Monday morning and involves heavy interagency and private sector and a... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | How Should International Law Treat Cyberattacks like WannaCry? | North Korea was behind the infamous WannaCry cyberattack, asserted homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert in a Dec. 18 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that echoes the CIA’s previously classified assessment and British government state... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | The Volunteers Helping Women Get Abortions Against All Odds | When Emily, a 41-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky, found out she was pregnant earlier this year, she decided to get an abortion. (Her name has been changed because she fears retribution at work if her colleagues found out.) Confident in h... |
| Dec 12, 2017 | It Was Twenty(-odd) Years Ago Today When The Internet Looked Much Different Than It Does Now | Last week, Mike and I were at a conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Reno v. ACLU, a seminal case that declared that the First Amendment applied online. What makes the case so worth a conference celeb... |
| Dec 5, 2017 | Tier III Terrorist Designations: The Trump Administration and Courts Move in Opposite Directions | President Trump has vowed “to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.” While new mutations of his travel ban grind slowly through the courts, the president may take solace in one far-reaching exclusionary tool: denying ... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | Why Do We Still Have Laws that Say It's Not Rape Unless the Victim Fights Back? | The story of Megan Rondini—who reported a rape to Tuscaloosa police in July 2015, only to have the police side with her alleged attacker—has shocked millions of readers since Buzzfeed published an extensive report on the case in June of thi... |
| Nov 14, 2016 | What is Trump going to do with solar? | In the wake of last week’s earth-shattering election, solar advocates are trying to discern what a Donald Trump administration will mean for the industry — and the number of conflicting opinions suggest no one really knows.
Roth Capital Par... |
| Aug 23, 2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Copyright Terms And How Historical Journalism Is Disappearing | The National Endowment for the Humanities announced last Wednesday the “Chronicling America” contest to create projects out of historical newspaper data. The contest is supposed to showcase the history of the United States through the lens ... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | FTC asked to block Uber from getting location data in background | Adam Fagen reader comments 60 with 33 posters participating
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| Jun 2, 2015 | A New Journal Dedicated to Cybersecurity | I’d like to announce the new Journal of Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary journal encouraging submissions in all aspects of cybersecurity. This new journal will publish original research in the inherently interdisciplinary area of cyberse... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Apple expands data encryption under iOS 8, making handover to cops moot | Tim Cook unveils iOS 8 at WWDC 2014.
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| Jun 11, 2014 | How Do You Know The Public Domain Is In Trouble? It Requires A 52-Page Handbook To Determine If Something Is Public Domain | We’re obviously big supporters of the public domain here at Techdirt, and frankly, believe that many more works should be in the public domain. In fact, we treat our own articles, written by staffers here, to be public domain, even though t... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Bad Code: The Whole Series | Over the last month, on our New Republic: Security States newsfeed, we rolled out a series designed to explain why fairly allocating the costs of software deficiencies between software makers and users is so critical to addressing the growi... |
| Oct 9, 2013 | Law Schools Team Up To Help Developers Fight Patent Trolls | Over the last few years it’s been great to see a number of useful law school clinics pop up, focused on taking on key issues of our modern era. While law clinics have been around for a while, those focused on issues raised by technological ... |
| May 8, 2013 | House Judiciary Committee Sets Up First Hearing On Copyright Reform | With comprehensive copyright reform back on the table in the US, and with Rep. Bob Goodlatte looking to lead the process, he’s hosting the first House Judiciary Committee hearings on the matter, with the initial focus focused on finding con... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Is a patent troll watching your business now? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Feb 6, 2013 | Is a patent troll watching your business now? | Ray Felts is North American president of crowdsource patent-research company Article One Partners; David DiGiammarino is a director with the company.
You’re a venture capitalist. You just invested in a promising startup, e-Widgets. The futu... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Craigslist sues site that makes its apartment listings easier to find (Updated) | PadMapper reader comments 91 with 59 posters participating
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| Nov 12, 2010 | Recent Scholarship and Events Relating to National Security Law | Links and abstracts for some recent scholarship and events relating to national security law:
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| Oct 24, 2006 | Two-timing, YouTube ruckus, French connection, the Friendster patents & more | Roundup:
Entrepreneurs who have two companies — The Mercury News has a story summarizing the exploits of the guys with two start-ups, Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson (Digg, Revision3), Scott Rafer (MyBlogLog, Mashery) and Evan Williams (Odeo, ... |
| With the oil in the dumps, the world considers ending fossil-fuel subsidies | EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson wants to make a Green Deal part of the pandemic recovery plan. Simson told Bloomberg, “Getting rid of fossil fuel subsidies while lowering taxes on electricity can nudge us in the right direction, without... |
| The challenge of sustainably producing millions of EV batteries | Two research institutes at the University of California, Berkeley, today released a research brief about the global supply of batteries for electric vehicles. Many millions of batteries will be needed for EVs in the coming decades. Here’s t... |
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