Mike from TechDirt has done a thorough write-up of last week’s copyright conference at the Cato Institute. It’s a fair assessment of things, but naturally skewing toward his perspective, which was a welcome contribution to the event. One can’t help but suspect that the length of his assessment is due to the fact that he had a whole bunch of time on a plane returning to California, when he could have been networking.
About Jim Harper
Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.
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