Intellectual Property

Cellphone Unlocking Legal, But Cellphone Lockpicking Illegal – Keeping Copyright Neuterers Honest

March 5, 2013 Rhetoric aside, the Administration drew an under-appreciated and principled line in defending property rights in its deft partial support of the Free Culture petition to the White House to “make unlocking cellphones legal.” For those paying attention to the whole Administration statement,...
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Mr. Khanna’s Copyright Misrepresentation Over Cellphone Unlocking

February 25, 2013 Free culture activist, Derek Khanna, has thrust himself into the limelight again with yet more misrepresentations of copyright law. His latest copyright-neutering effort is a “call to arms” to “the digital generation” to oppose a Librarian of Congress 1998 DMCA copyright ruling,...
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Implications of Google’s Broadband Plans for Competition and Regulation – Part 3 of Modernization Consensus Series

January 28, 2013 Google’s latest broadband pilot, experimenting with micro-cell (mesh) wireless broadband in its Mountain View headquarters, comes on top of Google Fiber’s high-profile, commercial broadband pilot in Kansas City, that Google’s CFO recently told investors was not a “hobby” but a real business...
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Why Conservatives Should Be Skeptical of Copyright Reform – Part 4 Defending First Principles Series

December 5, 2012 There are many strong reasons for conservatives to be skeptical of proposed copyright reform and new entreaties for conservatives to actually lead a copyright reform effort. Jerry Brito of the Mercatus Center argues the opposite in his introduction to the new book:...
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Debasing Free Speech as No-Cost Speech – Part 1 Defending First Principles Series

November 19, 2012 The genuine U.S. Constitutional principle of “Freedom of Speech” in the First Amendment — that protects us from the real and time-tested threat of governmental tyranny — continues to get debased, devalued and misrepresented by the free-of-cost tech movement of Free-Culture, the...
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