Donate
  • Freedom
  • Innovation
  • Growth

Publications

Publications RSS Feed
Publication Type 
May 3, 2007

Playing Geoeconomics in Asia

International trade liberalization has stalled, so the U.S. must press ahead with bilateral and regional arrangements. Ratifying the newly negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea would benefit both nations. Moreover, a Korean FTA would help match growing Chinese regional influence. The U.S. can best respond by using its enduring economic strength to engage friendly nations throughout Asia.

May 1, 2007

When Taxpayers Get ‘Malled’

Millions of Americans go to shopping malls every day and hand over their hard-earned dollars.
April 26, 2007

Mountains Out of Molehills: How Believing the Worst Makes Technologists Ineffective, And What They Can Do About It

Technologists, and particularly computer programmers, seem to fixate on unlikely scenarios while giving only lip service to the massive copyright infringement now happening. When they do look at problems, they dismiss technical solutions because they are not perfect. And they ignore how laws can support or work alongside technology, because law is unfamiliar to them. By putting problems in perspective, technologists can be particularly effective in finding approaches to the real problems in today’s digital world.

April 26, 2007

First, Do No Harm to the IP System

Until a few years ago, intellectual property was considered a dull topic.
April 24, 2007

AARP: Privatizing for Profit

$185 million! That’s how much AARP estimates it makes on average in royalties and revenues from the sale of health insurance products, according to an article in USA today.
April 19, 2007

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Regulate

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.
April 17, 2007

Taxpayer Dollars and Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Without any apparent sense of irony, many newspapers last week ran adjoining stories about human stem cells.
April 12, 2007

What’s Fair?

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.
April 11, 2007

What's "Fair"? Why Those Concerned About Copyright Fair Use Need to Say What They Mean

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.

April 10, 2007

The ‘Campaign’ for Bad Policy

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

Total Records: 2084