The traditional bastions of news media are facing a formidable challenge: protecting themselves from the very consumers they aim to serve. Confronted with the of loss of advertising revenue to…
By Mark Jamison | March 7, 2024
The decades-long push for expansion of “renewable” electricity generation—wind and solar power in particular—always has been driven by a combination of religious fervor and the rent- and vote-seeking cynicism of…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 6, 2024
As we discussed in January, the New York Times Company surprised many with the late December copyright infringement lawsuit it filed against OpenAI. Now the artificial intelligence (AI) giant has struck back, filing a motion…
By Michael M. Rosen | March 6, 2024
Automatic stabilizers are government mechanisms, like unemployment insurance and progressive taxes, that help to stabilize the economy without needing direction from Congress. In a similar way, there are a range…
By Will Rinehart | March 5, 2024
The political background and substantive implications of the recent US reversal on market-opening digital trade policies are now emerging with greater clarity. And what a tangled web has unfolded, with…
By Claude Barfield | March 1, 2024
Have you ever begun a major project, gotten deeply into it, and then realized you might not know enough about it––might not understand some key information and details––to successfully complete…
By Clay Calvert | February 29, 2024
Don’t mess with people’s stuff. It’s a casual expression of common sense that also reflects foundational property law. Secure property rights give people independence. Real property law makes our homes…
By Jim Harper | February 27, 2024
Once Democrats finally secured a 3-2 majority in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last fall, the agency lost no time in approving a long-anticipated proposal to reintroduce net neutrality by…
By Daniel Lyons | February 23, 2024
With the US Supreme Court preparing for March arguments in the contentious jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), the plaintiffs––Missouri, Louisiana, and five individuals censored on social media platforms––filed their high-court brief this month. Murthy hinges on whether censorship by…
By Clay Calvert | February 21, 2024
The algorithms know and love me, so LinkedIn pointed me the other day to a webinar cum gripe session put on by George Washington University Law Professor Daniel Solove and Cornell University Law Professor…
By Jim Harper | February 20, 2024
Last week, Project Liberty released the results of a survey of 14,000 adults in seven countries—Brazil, China, France, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States—that found “people are deeply…
By Bronwyn Howell | | February 20, 2024
All of the players involved in social media, including the large platforms, want to deal with the problem of child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) offenses. But the sheer volume…
By Will Rinehart | Owen O'Brien-Powers | February 16, 2024
The rise of streaming platforms like Spotify has reshaped music economics, revealing the industry’s longstanding flawed incentive structures that can make it difficult for artists to be paid for their…
By Shane Tews | February 15, 2024
If lawmakers spent as much time thinking through the First Amendment implications of their bills as they do devising acronyms, judges might labor less and states wouldn’t pay the attorney fees of plaintiffs who…
By Clay Calvert | February 14, 2024
In case you missed it, ten days ago, the US and EU held the fifth ministerial meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), since its inception in 2021.…
By Claude Barfield | February 13, 2024