Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Probably largely the same reason that people hate lawyers: Anytime you’re dealing with legal rights and contracts, it’s a pain to get anything done. (Having just celebrated my fifth law school reunion, I should know!) Case in point: I was thrilled to discover the Canadian radio show The Age of Persuasion, dedicated to a subject [...]
Nick Wingfield has a great piece in today’s WSJ: Yahoo Tie-Up Is Latest Sign Tide Turning for Microsoft’s Ballmer (subscription required but can be found through a Google News search) about how Microsoft’s fortunes may be looking up across the board—especially with yesterday’s Yahoo!/Microsoft search/advertising partnership. The most interesting passage is this one: For [Microsoft [...]
Eric Goldman, one of the few active cyberlibertarians in legal academe, has a thoughtful post about the search partnership announced today. Eric notes blogger Danny Sullivan’s observation about the decline in Yahoo’s assets and his comment that: Microsoft is getting a huge bargain courtesy of the US Department Of Justice. Without Google being able to compete for [...]
A key point that Berin and I try to get across in our Forbes editorial today about the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal is that the high-tech marketplace evolves too rapidly for creaky Analog Era antitrust laws to keep up. We wanted to say more on that point in our piece, but we had a tight deadline (and [...]
We’ve just published an op-ed over at Forbes.com about today’s big Yahoo!-Microsoft deal. Searching For Success: Web 1.0 Titans Struggle to Reinvent Themselves by Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer Yahoo! and Microsoft on Wednesday announced a partnership in which Microsoft’s Bing search engine technology will power search for both companies, but Yahoo! will manage advertising sales and content [...]
My comments on the new Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal appears below. Please ignore the date.
As part of a revise-and-resubmit process, I’ve been spending much of my summer upgrading my draft book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of Copyright. That effort has led me to revisit copyright’s constitutional foundations. I find them very shaky, indeed. This passage (with footnotes excerpted) explains why modern copyright law often fails “to promote the [...]
Two weeks ago, I mentioned here that John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty celebrated its 150th anniversary this year. This year also marks the anniversary of another classic text: Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which turns 250 this year. Although Smith will always be most closely associated with The Wealth of Nations, some [...]
The new Maine law I blogged about on Sunday is much worse than I thought based on my initial reading. If allowed to stand, it would constitute a sweeping age verification mandate introduced through the back door of “child protection.” The law, which goes into effect in September, would extend the approach of the Children’s Online Privacy [...]
The FCC has less than seven months to complete and submit to Congress a “National Broadband Plan For Our Future.” Last week, CEI filed reply comments with the FCC on the broadband plan. One of our arguments was that network neutrality rules amount to price controls. ArsTechnica quoted our comments in a recent article and [...]
February 13, 2012
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