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The Singularity Law Podcast Episode 7: The Global Perspective

A new U.S. president prepares to take office… will his “change” include a new technology policy? French record labels gear up for a fight against open source media sharing software. A European fashion designer tries to enforce a copyright judgment in New York. The judge who shut down Napster proposes a sweeping copyright reform. Craigslist [...]

The Singularity Law Podcast Episode 4: The Elephant in the Room

Will DRM be the final nail in the coffin of PC gaming? How anonymous can the Internet be? Why won’t YouTube grant a full legal review of all DMCA takedown requests on election campaign videos? Will trademark owners be forced to monitor domain name registrations? Can libraries go digital? Can a record label infringe its [...]

On “Technology Policy,” Let’s Be More Specific

Earlier this week Professor Michael Scott of Southwestern Law School called for a “coherent federal technology policy.”  He pointed to the decline in government R&D spending and argued that the next president should “turn things around.”
He’s right.  But I want to go one step further and specifically outline what a good federal technology policy should include. [...]