Publications

This week is the annual General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which was set up to administer the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the 1883 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

You know how children, especially the strong-willed ones, will occasionally decide to test the will and determination of their parents, just to see how much they can get away with? Well, that’s pretty much where we are on the bill reauthorizing and greatly expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

In a few weeks the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a town hall meeting to examine the public policy issues involved in “online behavioral advertising.

No, but it does need to be better understood.

For the fourth time in nine years Congress is again struggling with whether taxes that discriminate against electronic commerce should be allowed.

Congress is back and you know what that means: Time once again for the Democrats to push to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) — a little over $80,000 a year for a family of four.

There has been some complaining lately about the business models of the wireless companies—mostly driven by those who want to own an Apple iPhone, but who don’t want to be tied to AT&T as a service provider.

Back in California, things are heating up between the big-spending Republican governor, who wants a massive new health care program that will cost taxpayers an estimated $12 billion to get “universal health care,” and the big-spending Democrat-controlled legislature that wants to require employers to spend at least 7.

Reed Hundt never got around to smothering the wireless industry with regulations while he was chairman of the FCC, and the wireless industry thrived as a result.

We’re hearing a lot about “moral hazard” in the news these days.