We talk technology and law with Kevin Collins and begin with the law of the horse. The Supreme Court has given us decisions about searching cell phones, tiny antennae and broadcast television, and patents on business methods implemented in software. Molecules, hair-drying calculating machines, DNA, and the meaning of knowledge. It’s an IP festival this week.

This show’s links:


Kevin Collins’ faculty profile and writing
Edinburgh’s statue of Adam Smith, though not the photo taken by listener Barbara:
Riley v. California, the cell phone search case, PDF and HTML
Frank Easterbrook, Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse
Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
Christian Turner, The Information Law Crisis
Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., the VCR case
American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, PDF and HTML
Mike Masnick, Aereo Fallout Begins: Fox Uses Ruling To Attack Dish's Mobile Streaming Service
Summary of the history of cable television in the U.S.
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, PDF and HTML
Episode 3: Cut It Off (guest Paul Heald)
O’Reilly v. Morse, the telegraph case
Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments, PDF and HTML
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
Kevin Collins, The Knowledge/Embodiment Dichotomy
Kevin Collins, Bilski and the Ambiguity of 'An Unpatentable Abstract Idea’
Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly
Michele Boldrin and David Levine, The Case Against Patents
Special Guest: Kevin Collins.