Professor Mark Lemley was quoted in the following article on the future of the Operation In Our Sites initiative to seize domain names as an effort to enforce copyright laws. Louis Trager of the Washington Internet Daily reports:

Administration congressional testimony suggests that
policy may have shifted away from doing high-profile seizures of domain names in
copyright enforcement, said Mark Lemley, a prominent Stanford law professor and
intellectual-property litigator, Monday. Lemley, of the Durie Tangri law firm,
noted that at an oversight hearing this month in the House Judiciary Committee,
Attorney General Eric Holder had referred to Operation In Our Sites in the past
tense. At the Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference, Lemley said this
reference raised the question of whether government seizures will continue.

Holder corrected himself at the hearing in a statement including the
expression “all domains that are seized — or those that were seized, I guess —
in Operation In Our Sites,” shows a YouTube clip cited by an aide to Rep. Zoe
Lofgren, D-Calif., who was questioning the attorney general at the time. Fred
von Lohmann, a senior copyright counsel at Google on a panel with Lemley, got a
laugh by calling his parsing of Holder’s grammar reminiscent of “Kremlinology.”
He said “we’ll see” whether federal policy has changed. Neither DOJ nor
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which ran the operation, got back to us
right away. A spokesman for Lofgren said she was traveling, and he declined to
comment.