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October 26, 2016

Class(less) Action: Undermining Consumers at the FCC Law360

Over the weekend, Sen. Al Franken and Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Mignon Clyburn issued an impassioned statement calling for the FCC to thwart the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in internet service providers’ consumer service agreements ...

Telecommunications

October 21, 2016

FCC Chairman Wheeler’s claimed fealty to FTC privacy standards is belied by the rules he actually proposes

Geoffrey A. Manne

Next week the FCC is slated to vote on the second iteration of Chairman Wheeler’s proposed broadband privacy rules. Of course, as has become all too common, none of us…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 22, 2016

MVPDs “Unlock” the Box (again), but the FCC Doesn’t Seem to Care

Kristian Stout

The FCC’s blind, headlong drive to “unlock” the set-top box market is disconnected from both legal and market realities. Legally speaking, and as we’ve noted on this blog many times…

Intellectual Property

August 9, 2016

No, The FCC Should Not Have the Power to Cancel Contracts

Kristian Stout

Copyright law, ever a sore point in some quarters, has found a new field of battle in the FCC’s recent set-top box proposal. At the request of members of Congress,…

Financial Regulation

August 8, 2016

Our amicus brief supporting en banc review of the court’s Open Internet Order decision

Gus Hurwitz

Last week the International Center for Law & Economics and I filed an amicus brief in the DC Circuit in support of en banc review of the court’s decision to uphold the FCC’s 2015 Open…

Telecommunications

July 27, 2016

ICLE & TechFreedom Policy Comments

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

The Commission’s NPRM would shoehorn the business models of a subset of new economy firms into a regime modelled on thirty-year-old CPNI rules designed to address fundamentally different concerns about a fundamentally different market.

Telecommunications

July 7, 2016

The FCC’s proposed broadband privacy rules are still devoid of sufficient evidence or analysis

Geoffrey A. Manne

Yesterday, the International Center for Law & Economics filed reply comments in the docket of the FCC’s Broadband Privacy NPRM. ICLE was joined in its comments by the following scholars…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 6, 2016

Comments, Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Telecom Services

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

The NPRM and many of the comments supporting it reflect an ill-considered approach to privacy regulation for ISPs.

Telecommunications

May 31, 2016

The FCC’s proposed broadband privacy rules: The harmful effects of regulating without evidence or analysis

Geoffrey A. Manne

Last week the International Center for Law & Economics filed comments on the FCC’s Broadband Privacy NPRM. ICLE was joined in its comments by the following scholars of law & economics:…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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