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Mark Schultz on the Mercatus Center’s Unhelpful Business Advice for the Creative Industries

TOTM Over at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), Mark Schultz has an important blog posting on the Mercatus Center‘s recent launch of its . . .

Over at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), Mark Schultz has an important blog posting on the Mercatus Center‘s recent launch of its new copyright piracy website, piracydata.org.  The launch of this website has caused a bit of a tempest in a teapot with a positive report on it in the Washington Post and with a report in the Columbia Journalism Review pointing out problems in its data and errors in its claims.  (It is a bit ironic that a libertarian organization is having trouble with the launch of a website at the same time that there is similar reporting on troubles of the launch of another website on the opposite side of the political spectrum, Obamacare.)

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Intellectual Property & Licensing

Comments, Modernizing the E-rate Program for Schools and Libraries, FCC

Regulatory Comments "In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress created a cluster of Universal Service Programs to ensure that schools, libraries, high-cost areas and the poorest Americans are connected to the telecommunications networks..."

Summary

“In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress created a cluster of Universal Service Programs to ensure that schools, libraries, high-cost areas and the poorest Americans are connected to the telecommunications networks. As those networks have been transformed by technological change, those subsidy programs have become increasingly disconnected from the reality of modern communications technologies. The Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on modernizing E-rate marks the next administrative step towards crafting a new framework for the USF program.

No one doubts the need for modernization, but sensible modernization requires ensuring that taxpayer dollars are used efficiently to achieve clearly conceived and effective goals. In particular, that means rigorously justifying any bandwidth “targets” in terms of actual needs, pedagogical efficacy, and tradeoffs…”

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Telecommunications & Regulated Utilities

Two net neutrality events following oral argument in Verizon v FCC on Monday

TOTM On Monday the DC Circuit hears oral argument in Verizon v. FCC – the case challenging the FCC’s Open Internet Order. Following the oral argument . . .

On Monday the DC Circuit hears oral argument in Verizon v. FCC – the case challenging the FCC’s Open Internet Order.

Following the oral argument I’ll be participating in two events discussing the case.

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Telecommunications & Regulated Utilities

The .AMAZON TLD, cultural identity and competition regulation at ICANN

TOTM The ridiculousness currently emanating from ICANN and the NTIA (see these excellent posts from Milton Mueller and Eli Dourado on the issue) over .AMAZON, .PATAGONIA and other “geographic”/commercial TLDs is . . .

The ridiculousness currently emanating from ICANN and the NTIA (see these excellent posts from Milton Mueller and Eli Dourado on the issue) over .AMAZON, .PATAGONIA and other “geographic”/commercial TLDs is precisely why ICANN (and, apparently, the NTIA) is a problematic entity as a regulator.

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Antitrust & Consumer Protection