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Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents

Ars has been following the Bilski case since early last year, when it was under consideration by the Federal Circuit. In October 2008, the Federal Circuit rejected Bilski's patent on the ground that the process it described involved neither a ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Ars Technica,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: State Street,  AT&T Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Siding with the Geeks on Network Neutrality

One of the perennial tropes of the network neutrality debate has been the tendency of the pro-regulation side to paint it as a David-and-Goliath struggle between big, evil corporations and the little guy. Way back in 2006, James Gattuso pointed out how ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Cato@Liberty,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bob Kahn,  Competitive Enterprise Institute,  Vint Cerf,  Federal Communications Commission,  Rachel Maddow

Washington Legal Foundation Opposes GBS Deal

Via James Grimmelmann, the Washington Legal Foundation, a group known for its defense of property rights, filed an objection to the Google book deal earlier this month focusing on concerns related to those I raised in my posts earlier this week. WLF ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Cato@Liberty,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

We Need a New Church Committee

The Church Committee was a post-Watergate congressional committee that investigated allegations of lawbreaking by the executive branch, including the CIA and FBI. The committee’s report was incredibly important in helping the public understand the ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Cato@Liberty,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Central Intelligence Agency,  U.S. Republican Party,  Chris Hayes,  George W. Bush

The Trouble with PACER Fees

Technically impressive, but also shortsighted. There appears a socialistic cultural trend that seeks to disconnect individual accountability to ones choices. $.08 a page is hardly burdensome or profitable, and clearly goes to offset costs. If ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Freedom to Tinker,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Cato Institute

Congress Abolishes Health Care Scarcity?

Reading the New York Times’s coverage of a Senate committee’s recent vote on health care legislation, I was struck by the following statement from Sen. Dodd: If you don’t have health insurance, this bill is for you,” said Senator Christopher J. Dodd, ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Cato@Liberty,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Christopher J. Dodd,  U.S. Democratic Party

Sizing Up "Code" with 20/20 Hindsight

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Larry Lessig's seminal work on Internet regulation, turns ten years old this year. To mark the occassion, the online magazine Cato Unbound (full disclosure: I'm a Cato adjunct scholar) invited Lessig and three other ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Freedom to Tinker,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Larry Lessig,  eBay Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission

Seasteading and Other Technologies for Liberty

I’ve been following Patri Friedman’s work on seasteading for a number of years, so I was excited to see him contribute the lead essay in this month’s Cato Unbound. I think he makes some good points about the difficulty of achieving a free society ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Cato@Liberty,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Margaret Thatcher,  Friedrich Hayek

The case against PACER: tearing down the courts' paywall

To ensure broad public access, the courts have long held that court records are not subject to copyright. If you want to find out how the Obama administration is spending the stimulus money, you can go to recovery.gov for detailed spending data. ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Ars Technica,  9 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Joe Lieberman,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Harvard University,  Google Inc.

Adam Thierer on the First Amendment Twilight Zone

Thursday's lunch talk here at CITP was by my co-blogger Adam Thierer of the Progress and Freedom Foundation. Adam is a leading voice in the debate over online free speech, with a particular focus on how to protect children from harmful online material ...

From TIMOTHY B. LEE, Freedom to Tinker,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission

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