Monday, November 24, 2014

Yet Another Court Reinforces State Law Copyrights in Pre-72 Sound Recordings

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For the third time in three months, a court has recognized a right of public performance to pre-1972 sound recordings under state copyright...
Friday, November 21, 2014

2014 Global IP Summit - Senator Chris Dodd Spoke about Piracy and Motion Pictures

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At Tuesday’s Global IP Summit former US Senator and current Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chris Dod...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

2014 Global IP Summit

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By Randolph May and Michael Horney The US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center held its 2 nd Annual IP Summit ye...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Thinking the Unthinkable - Part IV

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I was gratified by the excellent attendance at the Free State Foundation’s program last Friday titled, “Thinking the Unthinkable: Imposing ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

FCC Should Be Careful Steward of Scarce USF Funds

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With all of this week's attention focused on the net neutrality issue, and especially President Obama's rather extraordinary video t...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

MPAA Releases New Search Engine Full of Legal Content

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Today, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) introduced a new search engine called Wheretowatch.com . Users of the search engin...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Title II Classification an "Unmitigated Disaster"

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This is a clever, but, more importantly, informative  piece by Scott Cleland. As Scott concludes, after working his way through ten adjec...

FCC Should Not Use Scarce Universal Service Funds to Subsidize Unproven Start-Ups

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The Federal Communications Commission is charged with promoting widespread broadband deployment across America. But it’s not the FCC’s job ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

FSF Board of Academic Advisor Don Boudreaux Wins 2014 Coolidge Prize for Journalism

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Congratulations to FSF Board of Academic Advisor Don Boudreaux for winning the 2014 Coolidge Prize for Journalism . Professor Boudreaux of ...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

Gordon Tullock’s Contributions to Economics Will Always Live On

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I am saddened to say that economist Gordon Tullock passed away on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 92. Professor Tullock is often ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Entrepreneurs Cannot Predict the Future and Neither Can Regulators

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Whether you are an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, or an economist, it is almost impossible to envision with any certainty what a giv...
Monday, November 03, 2014

New Survey: Consumers Value a Deregulated Wireless Broadband Market

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Mobile Future released the results of a new survey today demonstrating that consumers do not favor more government regulation in the wirel...

FSF’s Deborah Tate a Finalist for ITU Annual GEM-TECH Award

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Deborah Taylor Tate, Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Free State Foundation and former FCC Commissioner, is a GEM-TECH 2014 ...