www.linkedin.com/posts/latera... I was interviewed by Harry Brooker for That IP Podcast

www.latimes.com/business-ins... My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today

Honored to be recognized by Best Lawyers for intellectual property litigation, trade secret law, privacy and data security and as lawyer of the year for technology law

PSA Stay safe Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake www.latimes.com/california/s...

My Digital Hollywood panel. Link in the comments

Join us at the Digital Hollywood Summer Summit on July 21–23! I will be moderating the panel “AI & the Law: A ‘Deep Dive’ – Fair Use, Copyright and the Doctrine of Innovation,” which will explore the legal and creative implications of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry.

wapo.st/4lnDEWF Message in a bottle A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland Free to read outside the paywall

Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board meeting

Co-chairing Stanford’s 22nd annual Digital Economy Best Practices conference

Speaking on the future of AI at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society

IAPP GPS 25

Congressman Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) “Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago

Free to read outside the paywall wapo.st/3FWwVDf

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-... A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.

I wonder what it is about white South Africans that Trump likes given that he is deporting Black and Latino immigrants who had legal status that Trump revoked? Whites, but not Blacks, from Musk’s homeland are being recruited to immigrate to the United States. Free to read outside the paywall

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/m... Free to read outside the paywall

www.politico.com/news/magazin... Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.

“B/y the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest..the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic, fascistic tone of ironic detachment and glee of the internet’s darkest corners..

Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius Free to read outside the paywall wapo.st/42cwMTN

Disturbing. Free to read outside the paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl... Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link

Rewarding aggression www.wsj.com/world/europe...

“In george orwell’s 1984, …Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been… Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”

“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... When the tv commentators and other amateurs take over the Pentagon

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o... An insightful article by conservative David French on Trump’s 19th century vision for the world and why he views Canada as America’s Ukraine. Worth a close read.

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... "Simply put, the Trump administration has begun its defiance of the courts in earnest.. What we’re witnessing is a setup. The goal is to brush off a court order and get away with it. The administration barely pretends otherwise..."

I am speaking on copyright, AI and social justice at Howard University Law School’s West Coast IP & Social Justice CLE Program at Greenberg Traurig LLP’s LA office with Professor Lateef Mtima, who heads Howard’s IP and Social Justice Program, and Howard and GT alum Hayley Tharpe of Legally Well

We don’t need no damn scientists We have tried and true conspiracy theories ….

www.wsj.com/health/healt... Not enough sick people apparently ….

thehill.com/homenews/adm... In a rare public statement, Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Trump for threatening to impeach judges who rule against him

Trump is erasing American history that isn’t white American history in the name of eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... More attacks on the legal system Trump declares void Biden pardons signed by autopen Presidents have used autopens for decades There are arguments for reforming the pardon system but the use of an autooen shouldn’t be a concern

A big drop in employment for programmers since 2022 may be the first sign that artificial intelligence is taking human jobs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A French member of the European Parliament suggests America should return the Statue of Liberty since it no longer defines American values www.politico.eu/article/stat...

intl travel “is expected to slide by 5% this year, contributing to a $64 billion shortfall..The research firm had originally forecast a 9% increase .:., but revised its estimate late last month to reflect “polarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric.”” Free to read outside the paywall

Notes from Canadian travelers and organizations canceling planned visits to the United States, reproduced with additional context Free to read outside the paywall wapo.st/3FsTj7c

The Trump administration shut down a program tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Canceling this program doesn’t just undermine justice—it helps war criminals. newrepublic.com/article/1927...

“[Paul] Dans [the former chief architecht of Projext 2025] effectively confirmed what Democrats were saying all along and Trump himself denied: There really is almost no difference between Project 2025 and what Trump was planning all along and is now implementing.”

I heard the radio version this morning. Orwellian. And so hypocritical. Cutting essential services to pay for propaganda…

Without any sense of irony, Trump’s replacement as head of the Kennedy Center urged employees to show tolerance for diversity in condemning patrons’ spontaneous loud boos for Vance at a Kennedy Center performance. You can’t make this stuff up… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Very insightful Free to read outside the paywall “Trump's style of lying has the power to shape group identities in an increasingly polarized world.” wapo.st/4ifi98X

“Chaos is Trump’s calling card, but few could have expected how quickly the president would ricochet all over the place on the size, nature, and timing of—not to mention the justifications for—[tariffs]…Before markets can adjust to one pronouncement, [America…] is hurtling in another direction…”

War with Panama apparently would make America great again… Trump has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans to invade Panama This is shameful and dangerous An NBC News exclusive www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Make America sick again…. Mindless cuts by Trump/Musk to fund tax cuts and government subsidies to crypto investors…. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

thehill.com/opinion/5191... Insightful analysis into what motivates Trump and possibly how to deter bad behavior A worthwhile read

Russian state media openly says what I and others warned about, which Trump/Vance/Musk and fans—along with Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, and their end of the horseshoe—get badly wrong: Russia is after conquest, not peace. US weakening Ukraine encourages more Russian attacks, not Russian negotiations.

thehill.com/homenews/hou... Nebraska Republican Don Bacon has some wise words about Trump’s disastrous approach to Ukraine (and before Ukraine, Afghanistan)

You don’t have to agree with this student to be concerned that Trump is now targeting lawful US residents whose views he doesn’t like for deportation. Here, Trump/Rubio purported to revoke the green card of a lawful US resident whose views they don’t like, in violation of the 1st Amendment