April 26, 2013 Ever wonder why there are so many never ending tech policy and political battles? Why there are so many recurring: Content battles over copyright and anti-piracy enforcement? Software battles over open source versus proprietary software and the legitimacy of software patents? Broadband...
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Intellectual Property
Cellphone Unlocking Effort a Trojan Horse – Copyright Enforcement
March 11, 2013 I have repeatedly warned that the so-called copyright “reform” movement is deceptive because it masks its true purposes. It knows that the real change it seeks — to neuter anti-piracy enforcement – is an out-of-the-mainstream idea and a political loser. So the...
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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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Obsolete Privacy Law – Daily Caller Op-ed, Part I of Privacy Theft Series
January 23, 2013 Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “Obsolete Privacy Law”. It’s part 1 of a new “Privacy Theft” research series....
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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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The Copyright Education of Mr. Khanna – Part 2 Defending First Principles Series
November 20, 2012 Mr. Derek Khanna, a new Republican Study Committee (RSC) staffer, distributed a policy brief on copyright “myths” last Friday that the Committee very quickly disavowed and pulled down because it had not been vetted to ensure that it fairly represented the Republican...
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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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Supreme Court Likely to Leash FCC to the Law
October 10, 2012 In an ominous development for the FCC, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the legal question of whether a Federal Court must give “Chevron deference” to an administrative agency (FCC) when an agency interprets a law in a way which could...
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