Publications

As politicians play to their constituencies, the regulators are apparently feeling left out, and so the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated an inquiry to determine whether so-called net neutrality safeguards are needed.

Without any apparent sense of irony, many newspapers last week ran adjoining stories about human stem cells.

In the current copyright debates, critics are constantly complaining that intellectual property protections, in particular the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), stand in the way of “fair use.

While many people in the copyright debate talk about "fair use," they seldom say which uses are of concern. But without specifics, it is hard to provide balanced exceptions to copyright protection. Congress should codify "fair use of necessity" and many instances of "economic fair use" so that people will know what is allowed, while reserving fair use primarily for the "transformative" or "productive" uses that reflect the
goal of copyright.

Here’s an idea that would save Americans billions of dollars.

By now we’re all aware of the dangers of being connected to the Internet through viruses, worms, and spyware.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is close to achieving a legislative victory by reforming Mexico’s pay-as-you-go public pension system covering 2.

The Federal Communications Commission has recognized a new era of cable TV with its adoption of new franchising rules, and so will consumers as those rules are implemented.

On March 22, the Senate defeated an amendment by Senator DeMint (R-SC) that would have made it possible under the Congressional Budget Resolution for the Congress to stop spending Social Security surpluses on other government programs and begin saving the Social Security surplus for future generations.

The blogs are awash in outrage over the Copyright Royalty Board's (CRB) decision about the royalty rates that Internet radio broadcasters must pay for the use of songs protected by copyright.