Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (“RIF Order”). This initiative by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai restores the legal regime that governed the Internet…
Geoffrey Manne was quoted in the LA Times on the risk that AT&T would use the merger to keep certain programming away from rivals: The government's lawsuit argued that AT&T…
The following may be attributed to Geoffrey Manne, Executive Director, ICLE Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced the restoration of the Commission’s historically light-touch, pro-innovation approach to regulating broadband Internet…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2017 The following statement is attributable to Geoffrey A. Manne, Executive Director, ICLE: PORTLAND, OR -- Today the US Department of Justice filed suit to stop…
Canada’s large merchants have called on the government to impose price controls on interchange fees, claiming this would benefit not only merchants but also consumers. But experience elsewhere contradicts this…
This week, the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) filed an ex parte notice in the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom docket. In it, we reviewed two of the major…
The FTC will hold an “Informational Injury Workshop” in December “to examine consumer injury in the context of privacy and data security.” Defining the scope of cognizable harm that may…
The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) filed two sets of comments with the Federal Communications Commission supporting the reversal of former Chairman Wheeler's controversial 2015 Open Internet Order…
ICLE Associate Director for Innovation recently debated Sasha Moss of the R Street Institution on the nature of copyright law, its constitutional foundations, and the proper contours of its function…
