Philadelphia-based Comcast is set to acquire New York-based Time Warner Cable. If the deal is approved by the FCC and the Department of Justice, this will give Comcast nearly three quarters of the U.S. cable broadband market with about 30 million subscribers. This amounts to about 33% of the entire subscription TV broadband market, which … Continue reading Comcast to Acquire Time Warner, Giving it Most of Cable Broadband Market…
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U.S. Net Neutrality Rules Gone for Now
D.C Circuit Throws Out Net Neutrality Rules. We’ve waited a long time for a verdict on the FCC’s net neutrality rules (Open Internet Order). On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 63-page opinion, handed a qualified victory to the challenger in Verizon v. FCC, by throwing out most of the rules. … Continue reading U.S. Net Neutrality Rules Gone for Now…
D.C. District Court on Why NSA Bulk Data Collection Violates Privacy
U.S. federal district court Judge Richard Leon (Washington D.C.) on December 16 held in a 68-page opinion that the NSA’s bulk collection of mobile phone call “metadata” was an unconstitutional violation of privacy. The effect of the decision is stayed pending appeal, but the court’s reasoning is instructive. Essentially, the judge found that: (1) our … Continue reading D.C. District Court on Why NSA Bulk Data Collection Violates Privacy…
Increasing Innovation Through Copyright Common Sense and Better Government Policy
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2288618 Innovation is crucial to the U.S. economy. But many of our laws and policies are not promoting innovation. This Essay addresses this problem. The first set of proposals focuses on copyright law. The recommendations avoid vague copyright law and suggest the elimination of statutory damages and personal liability in cases of secondary infringement. The … Continue reading Increasing Innovation Through Copyright Common Sense and Better Government Policy…
Actavis and “Large and Unjustified” Payments
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302438 This short piece responds to Alan Morrison’s post on SCOTUSblog that the Supreme Court’s Actavis decision is unclear because of its emphasis on “large and unjustified” payments. The piece first explains that the payments at issue in “reverse payment” cases are, by definition, likely to be large since payments less than the average $5 … Continue reading Actavis and “Large and Unjustified” Payments…