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 Luddite lamented, “the Millennium is upon us and still they depend upon the machines. We have failed.”

“Yes, but it is a Digital Millennium,” said the Luddite’s Lawyer. “There is a way, but first you must write!”

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: