Randal Picker, Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Randal C. Picker is Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Chicago Law School and a Senior Fellow, at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.

As such, he's thoroughly qualified to talk about entertainment technology and the law, which is what he did, by remote videoconferencing, this afternoon with Entertainment Technology World.

You can watch and listen to that conversation by clicking here.

You can access a related, recently-authored paper by Professor Picker in which he suggests ways to update the "substantial non-infringing uses" doctrine from the Betamax case in light of the technical advances incorporated in TiVo and similar systems, by clicking on its title: "Rewinding Sony: The Evolving Product, Phoning Home and the Duty of Ongoing Design."