About Jerry Brito
Jerry Brito is a senior fellow with the regulatory studies program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he studies mostly tech-related issues such as telecom, privacy and intellectual property. Brito received his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and his B.A. in Political Science from Florida International University in Miami. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, Regulation, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, and elsewhere. His Web site is jerrybrito.com.Posts by Jerry Brito
- Contribute to my congressional testimony!
- Recovery.gov answers lead to more questions
- Recovery.gov is up, but questions remain
- StimulusWatch.org launched today
- Crowdsourced accountability project: Progress, but we still need help from developers
- Big bleg: Let’s help Obama crowdsource-out the pork
- Congrats to FCC.gov on five years without an update
- Connecticut Towns: Arm hurt? Cut it off!
- Obama CTO might want to check out D.C.’s CTO
- Comcast to FCC: We’re not gonna take it
- More on the super awesome commenting system
- Please excuse our dust
- Alcohol Liberation 6: Denver or Bust
- TPW 37: The Comcast Kerfuffle 2: The Chairman Strikes Back
- Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
- Google and Comcast, sitting in a tree…
- The medium is not the message
- Memo to Congress: We can handle new media
- Whatever Martin says, the FCC’s ‘Internet Policy Statement’ is not enforceable
- Social media and collective action
- Wiki-gov, special interests, and wiki-regs
- What is ConnectKentucky exactly?
- Lessig’s orphan works proposal still unworkable
- New orphan works bills introduced
- ALF 5 in 60 seconds
- Just sell off the D block?
- Another digital transition? Cuban says yes
- ALR media regulation symposium Friday 4/18
- Can TLF embed videos?
- I hate to say I told you so, but…
- Public safety spectrum, here we go again
- New podcast: In Conversation
- More Twitter talk
- Yes, Wikipedia should take the money
- Notes from Clay Shirky on social media
- TPW 36: The Markey bill, the politics of MS-Yahoo, and taxes on video games
- TPW 35: Network Management Redux
- New site: OpenRegulations.org
- Sarkozy: Tax the Internet for TV’s sake
- R.I.P. Frontline Wireless?
- Gutierrez: Strong demand for free money
- Regulations.gov gets an RSS feed
- Liveblogging (to tape) today’s e-gov hearing (UPDATED)
- Obama on e-transparency
- E-Gov Act reauthorization: A new hope for XML?
- Waiting for the Open Search Alliance
- Will they find this post?
- FCC.gov: The docket that doesn’t exist
- FCC.gov: Searching in vain
- The outputs and outcomes of Regulations.gov
- TPW 34: The Comcast Kerfuffle
- So what _is_ Comcast doing?
- I’m from the Internet and I’m here to help you
- Given enough eyeballs, all corruption is shallow
- Is Comcast discriminating against BitTorrent?
- More French wireless bashing
- Has AT&T been reading ‘The Prince’?
- French Carterphone may halt L’iPhone
- Buying or pacifying?
- Public safety spectrum update: Revenge of Cyren Call
- TPW 28: Live (on tape) from Aspen Part 2: Pooh-poohing fair use and contemplating data retention mandates
- TPW 26: Live (on tape) from Aspen: Reaction to Schmidt plus Tribe on free speech
- Alcohol Liberation Front 4: Destination Aspen!
- FCC rejects Google Microsoft whitespace devices
- Point-by-point analysis of the public safety side of the FCC’s 700 MHz decision
- Net neutrality: Where’s the beef?
- TPW 13: Microsoft claims free software is infringing its patents, online real estate services, and Google v. Perfect 10
- TPW 12: New video game violence bill, the Library of Congress isn’t happy with WashingtonWatch.com, and Rupert Murdoch’s surprise bid for the WSJ
- TPW 11: The Supreme Court does patents, the latest in the Vonage-Verizon saga, and a little ditty about Digg, the DMCA, and encryption keys
- TPW 10: The FCC’s violence report, the economics of abundance, and patent reform
- TPW 9: The FCC’s net neutrality inquiry, the NSA continue to wiretap, and Verizon patent-smacks Vonage
- TPW 8: States revolt against REAL ID, government thinks about the children, European patent reform, and the 700 MHz band auction
- TPW 7: Broadcasters v. XM-Sirius, EMI drops DRM, Verizon wireless broadband and net neutrality, and the FCC reports on TV violence
- Turnitin and Google Book Search: same thing?
- TPW 6: Patent reform, FreeConference v. AT&T, and a paper trail for e-voting
- A quick response to Cyren Call & Frontline
- TPW 5: Scholarly journals go open source, patent breadth, free DTV converter boxes, and physical media in the digital age
- Alcohol Liberation Front 3 tonight
- TPW 4: Viacom sues YouTube and Google changes its privacy policy
- Failure to communicate
- TPW 3: Wikipedia and the Essjay controversy, age verification for online content, and spectrum for first responders
- Giving McCain benefit of doubt on public safety spectrum
- TPW 2: Real problems with REAL ID, Boucher’s FAIR USE bill, and the FCC fines Univision
- Werbach: Forget neutrality, regulate interconnection
- That’s an awfully nice merger you have there, it’d be a shame if anything to happened to it
- Frontline Wireless joins the interoperability party
- Media and neutrality regulation: contradictions?
- TPW 1: Skype and wireless net neutrality, the XM-Sirius merger, and spectrum commons
- Gigi Sohn on XM-Sirius
- Martin Cooper lecture tomorrow
- Cable competition apparently not working fast enough
- TLF now available via e-mail
- American.com
- Spectrum and the definition of deregulation
- Search, cache, and copyright
- Cartefone for wireless?
- WaPo: ‘WiFi Turns Internet Into Hideout for Criminals’
- What congress can do about interoperability
- Public safety doesn’t need more spectrum
- A note on the design.
- Lessig’s orphan works proposal unworkable
- McCain signs on to Cyren Call plan
- DRM on 9/11 Commission Report
- On interoperability, is it worth implementing the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation?
- Google Book Search the new MP3.com?
- Brownback, FCC to stop TV from making kids fat
- For markets, for fair use
- SOX sucks: The case of Apple
- Rip, Mix, Sell?
- Martin pushes 90-day shot clock
- UK: May we interest you in some spectrum?
- EMI to sell (some) music in MP3
- Nike+iPod = surveillance?
- On franchising, who needs Congress?
- Berkely banned nukes, now nanotech
- Chertoff: We’ll have the 25-year-old interoperability problem fixed by next year
- New DMCA exemptions (plus iPhone rumors)
- IP Chairman Boucher?
- FCC turns down Cyren Call
- RSS feeds and copyright
- Wi-Fi competition at Logan
- Cyren Call, Verizon, and public safety
- Will the internet kill TV?
- Sprint, WiMax, Net Regulation, and the WSJ
- FEMA does texting: omfg!!11 :-@
- For your protection
- Cowen on neutrality, plus event this Thursday
- The new Betamax case?
- Why not have a comparative hearing while you’re at it?
- Zero doesn’t apply to spectrum
- Event: E-Commerce Symposium
- The RFID cookie monster
- This one’s not an urban legend
- Google’s citywide wi-fi hits snags
- New full-text RSS feed
- Google grows up
- Event: Smith and Porter on wireless auctions
- Piracy as trade retaliation
- Who’s your daddy?
- Crawford’s substrate neutrality
- Lessig on orphan works
- Opposition to orphan works legislation
- Is pay-as-you-go the devil?
- An orphan works affirmative defense
- Tollbooths on the Internet Highway?
- Study: Franchising costs consumers over $10 billion annually
- Is Verizon a network hog?
- Gates v. Jobs?
- The economics of the net neutrality debate
- Is the FCC getting desperate?
- Publishers: Kelly’s OK, Google Book Search is not
- Vaidhyanathan on Google Print
- Blegging for DMCA exemption ideas
- Variable price fixing?
- Google Print: “Potentially” not fair use
- Broadcast indecency roundtable tonight
- National ID sneaked through
