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“Net Neutrality: flash point for foes of big government”, Time Magazine, September 8, 2010. Larry was quoted extensively in Time’s review of the political reality behind much of the Net Neutrality debate. |
PII2010/Competing on Privacy
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“Competing on Privacy”, PII 2010, September 3, 2010. Video of the “Competing on Privacy” panel at Privacy Identity and Innovation 2010, which Larry moderated. Panelists include Fran Maier of TrustE and Christopher Wolf of the Future of Privacy Forum. |
Techdirt/Paul Allen
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“Is Paul Allen’s patent madness really an attempt to show the madness of patents?”, Techdirt, August 30, 2010. Larry’s blog post on Paul Allen’s patent lawsuit against leading Internet companies set off a minor firestorm. Mike Masnick of Techdirt doubted Larry’s speculation that Allen was really just showing up how broken the patent system is. In a later post, also on Techdirt, Masnick reviewed Larry’s comments about the particular problem of jury trials for patent infringement, especially now that the patent office approves pretty much everything. See also Larry Ebert’s comments on IPBiz. |
PFF/Seven Deadly Sins
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“The seven deadly sins of Title II reclassification (NOI remix)”, Progress on Point, August 20, 2010. The Progress & Freedom Foundation published an expanded version of Larry’s blog on latent problems lurking within the FCC’s proposed “Third Way” reclassification of broadband Internet. See commentary at NextGenWeb, InsiderOnline and Digital Society. |
SJ Mercury/NN Cold War
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“Ending the net neutrality cold war”, The San Jose Mercury News, August 19, 2010. Larry responded to an op-ed by law professors Susan Crawford and Lawrence Lessig, pointing out the practical limits of wireless broadband Internet and the need to restrain the tendency of regulators to tinker with evolving technologies. See commentary at SiliconValley.com, The Internet Innovation Alliance, and Broadband Policy Watch. |
Future Tense/What are we fighting for
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“Net Neutrality: What are we fighting for?”, American Public Media Future Tense, August 20, 2010. Larry was invited along with other legal scholars to provide additional commentary on the Google-Verizon crisis for Future Tense’s blog. |