Intellectual Property Law

Dumb War
Obama in 2002 (via Lessig). Too bad there is only an outside chance for him to actually become president. A couple of days ago I wrote that “there is still a small chance that the Republicans get away with stealing three presidential elections in a row...

Self-Swiftboating, Supersized
So I didn't make many friends in the Obama campaign when I suggested his campaign was Self-Swiftboating Obama -- acting in a way that undercut his most important character. But (as an Obama supporter), I am really pleased (if as one-time admirer of McCain, saddened) to see that McCain is out-doing Obama in this respect, big time...

Obama Campaign Challenges NRA Ad:
The Obama campaign has sent letters to radio stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania discouraging them from running ads by the National Rifle Association critical of Barack Obama. Ben Smith reports:...

Obama reaffirms support for "open debates"
Barack Obama has reaffirmed the position he took in the primaries and asked the Debate Commission to support "open debates." Here's the letter. Three key open questions: 1) Will the media pool choose to put their video of the debates in the public domain, so folks can freely blog key moments and share them without fear of being deemed a lawbreaker? 2) Will Tom Brokaw use some bottom-up debate questions collected and voted on on Google's site, in addition or in place of the top-down ones the Commission collected? 3) Will the Commission adopt these principles for future debates, now that the candidates from both major parties embrace them?

Obama's New Campaign Slogan
If I were Barack Obama, this would be my new campaign slogan: "Seven-Hundred Billion for Wall Street, Zero for Healthcare." Since the New York Times has concluded that Obama is a "made man," they wouln't point out that Obama and other Democrats protected Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Self-Swiftboating
[breaking my "focus" injunction]: All signs point to an Obama victory this fall. If the signs are wrong, it will be because of events last month. These events constitute a so-far-unnamed phenomenon in Presidential campaigning -- what we could call "self-Swiftboating...

Is Obama a Natural Born Citien?
Philip J. Berg, Esquire vs. Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barack Dunham, a/k/a Barry Dunham, et al

Vytorin Marketing
alleged false claims in marketing campaign.