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Denise Howell

Denise Howell

Denise Howell is an appellate, intellectual property and technology lawyer who enjoys broad industry recognition for her expertise on the intersection of emerging technologies and law. For further details please see her professional background and speaking schedule.

Denise's career is characterized by her passionate engagement in intellectual property issues, technology, media, and all forms of online communication. She writes one of the first law-related weblogs, Bag and Baggage and coined the term "blawg" as shorthand for legal weblog. She hosts this WEEK in LAW on TWiT, probing the areas where technology and society intersect in ways that present new, unique, or difficult issues under existing and developing law, and has a further audio series at IT Conversations, Sound Policy. She is a regular columnist for The American Lawyer magazine. Denise is a member of the Identity Gang, Project VRM, a board member of the Attention Trust, and an advisory board member of Lisensa/Top Ten Media and the Law and Policy Institutions Guide

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Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.

  • Touched by the TSA

    By Denise Howell | November 16, 2010, 11:37pm PST

    Time was when having “the talk” with your kids meant the birds and the bees. Nowadays parents also have to be ready to explain shoe- and underwear-bombers, molotov toothpaste, and the...

  • Video Kinect: The telepresent under the tree

    By Denise Howell | November 9, 2010, 11:37am PST

    Easter eggs in December? When Santa brings the XBox Kinect, cheap, sophisticated video conferencing comes along for the ride.

  • Four legal predictions for Foursquare

    By Denise Howell | November 8, 2010, 5:03am PST

    Checking in? Check out how law and businesses will respond to the rise of location services.

  • Bill would let U.S. kill allegedly infringing sites without trial, immunize ISPs

    By Denise Howell | September 21, 2010, 6:54am PDT

    Proposed new legislation would strip domain access from sites ‘dedicated to infringing activities,’ cutting through the red tape of due process, sovereignty, and property rights.

  • Sites harvesting kids' data fly under the radar, even for the FTC

    By Denise Howell | September 20, 2010, 6:57am PDT

    Parents routinely fear creepy online individuals, but creepy online data collection and sales practices are commonplace and rarely exposed, discussed, and considered.

  • Facebook ads might work, but not how they think

    By Denise Howell | September 19, 2010, 2:37pm PDT

    Facebook ads are notoriously and comically off-base. But even when they pique our interest, in today’s multi-option environment they are likely to sell something for a competitor.

  • Another reason for ACTA caution: U.S. rightsholders as government pawns

    By Denise Howell | September 14, 2010, 10:58am PDT

    ACTA negotiations are coming to a close, but even without it, nothing prevents repressive governments from seizing dissident computers on the pretext of infringement on U.S. copyrights. Do we...

  • In Autodesk case, 9th Circuit missed better reason to bar resales

    By Denise Howell | September 13, 2010, 11:52am PDT

    The software Timothy Vernor tried to sell was supposed to have been destroyed due to subsequent upgrades. This would have been a sounder basis for the 9th Circuit’s decision than the fact...

  • Muddling through privacy and the social Web

    By Denise Howell | December 2, 2009, 12:45pm PST

    Chief privacy officers from Yahoo!, IBM, and Comcast, as well as CDT’s public policy guru, weigh in on where things stand with privacy as social network usage becomes ubiquitous.

  • Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squatted

    By Denise Howell | June 13, 2009, 8:34am PDT

    Mike Arrington couldn’t get his name as a Facebook username when registration opened on 6/12/09. Here are six things you should know if you’re in the same boat.

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