Middle of the Road

by on March 22, 2006

Liberal blogger extraordinaire Matt Yglesias on my DMCA paper:

I have no idea whether America is becoming a theocracy (probably not) but I do rather firmly believe that our government is, to a troubling extent, falling under the iron grip of copyright law run amok. My friend Tim Lee has recently published a Cato Policy Analysis paper on one aspect of this question, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s prohibition of any technologies that may be used to “circumvent” digital rights management (DRM). I’m more of a radical on copyright issues generally than Tim is, but his moderate posture helps highlight some of the more insidious expansions of intellectual property law we’re seeing right now.

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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