Law Hacker


The world through the eyes of a technologist turned lawyer.




Reviving an Old Blog

March 11th 2010

Near the end of the “digital” Millennium, I found myself handling a number of cases raising issues at the very heart of copyright and technology policy. At the time, I wrote a number of short articles in a blog, “lawhacker.com,” which received a fair amount of notice and commentary. I was disappointed to learn that the information had been lost shortly after moving to a new home. Thanks to the miracle of [archive.org] and its blessed “Wayback Machine,” I was able to recover archives of those stories and post them here. Hopefully, they may be of use to someone.

The Fundamentals, Part IV - it's all about the balance

July 31st 2004

Intellectual Property cannot promote progress without providing real and meaningful incentives to authors to invent. Strong and enforceable intellectual property rights are critical to that end. But promotion of progress also requires limits to those rights. One of my favorite jurists put it well, gathering some examples of such limits: