TechBytes

Understanding that many are truly ignorant of the bounds of copyright, content providers (and also copyright critics) can now move from punishment fixation and together seek increasingly better ways to educate the public, and focus on the increasingly important role that copyright plays in our economy.

Patent pools by design were intended to save innovators time and money by establishing cross-licensing agreements for specific technologies, but patent pools can be abused.

In a knowledge economy, you have to get knowledge policy right. Too much is at stake.

The Wireless Tax Fairness Act, newly reintroduced this week, would put a five-year moratorium on any new state and local discriminatory wireless taxes.

If our elected officials, who are supposed to be guardians of our freedom first of all, grant expanded police powers to the federal government in violation of their oath to preserve and protect the Fourth Amendment, the Feds will use them.

Regulators still have a role to play today, but it is not the role of the last 50 years.

With the U.S.’s obvious and compelling broadband success story, why do regulation advocates compulsively call for much heavier government regulation and control over the broadband industry?

The Marketplace Fairness Act grants huge new taxing powers to state government, so why would any conservative support it?

Private sector experience should be considered a plus, indeed requisite, rather than treated as a contamination when it comes to appointed government offices.

The so-called Market Place Fairness Act is being rammed through the U.S. Senate, intentionally bypassing the regular order, proceeding to a full Senate debate without any committee hearing or mark-up, so that a variety of important constitutional questions and concerns can be ignored.