Singularity

This blawg covers issues relating to information technology law, technology law, and technology law as taught in law schools.

Author: Michael Scott is a professor at Southwestern Law School.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Law Schools • Legal History • Science & Technology Law • Southwestern Law School • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Singularity

International IT Law Summer in London Program
In the summer of 2009, Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) will offer a new summer abroad program in London which will focus on international information technology (IT) law. The program will allow students to study…
Prove Our Case? . . . We Don’t Need to Prove Our Stinkin’ Case!! Just Fork Over the Money.
In a recent filing with a federal court in Minnesota, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) asserts that it should be permitted to recover up to $150,000 per copyrighted movie allegedly traded online using…
How Not to Win Friends (and Influence People)
The blogosphere has been afire about actions taken by Associated Press (AP) against the Drudge Retort last week. According to reports, AP sent a series of DMCA take down notices to the Drudge Retort demanding…
IT Law Wiki Reaches 3,000 Articles
We have reached another milestone on the development of the IT Law Wiki. It has passed 3,000 articles and is moving toward 4,000. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the wiki…
Generalist vs. Specialist
Law students (and virtually every other kind of student) is under enormous pressure to specialize sooner and sooner. While I specialized early when I was in college, today I see doing so as an enormous…
Using Twitter for Legal Updates
Twitter.com is a service that lets people send short messages (140 characters or less) (called “tweets”) to those who decide to “follow” them, and to receive short messages from those they choose to follow. While…
Roommates.com Decision: A Start of a Judicial Trend to “Rein in” the Web?
The Ninth Circuit recently published its en banc decision in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com LLC, 2008 WL 879293 (9th Cir. April 3, 2008). I do not intend to comment on…
Appropriate Technology/Banning Internet Access in Class
When I meet people and tell them I specialize in technology law, they often assume that I must be an earlier adopter of every new geewhiz tech gadget that comes out. But I’m not. I…
IT Law Wiki Reaches a Milestone
The IT Law Wiki, launched last October, has reached 2,500 articles. While that sounds like a decent amount of material, it has barely scratched the surface of IT Law. I estimate that it needs 25,000…
Judges and the KISS Principle
Those lawyers who live and breathe a specialty, like IT Law, often forget that not everyone speaks their language, including judges. That isn’t to say that judges aren’t smart. Many are brilliant. But they are…