Before the election was even held, Barack Obama was named Advertising Age’s Marketer of the Year for 2008, beating out… Read More »The lines between political and commercial speech get a bit murkier.
Rob Frieden has posted an interesting and provocative paper, Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: Developing a Clearer Assessment of Market Penetration and Broadband Competition in the United States. It is well worth a read and is bound to spark a debate. Among other things, it challenges the FCC’s misuse of statistical evidence to support a deregulatory agenda, compares a number of different assessments of U.S. broadband markets, and emphasizes the need to look carefully at the actual markets for broadband services, which requires much better data than the FCC currently relies on. The abstract is below the fold. Read More »Is broadband Internet access in the US “robustly competitive”?
It’s not often that 21st century gets in my face. Computers and computer networks blend seamlessly into work and home… Read More »I Tried the Prius and Didn’t Like It
Last Sunday’s New York Times included a provocative piece about commons environments that should interest all intellectual property lawyers, scholars,… Read More »Commons in the News