Spectrum management is crucial to our digital future as it provides the invisible regulatory framework enabling efficient and equitable allocation of finite radio frequency resources. Without comprehensive, forward-thinking spectrum policies,…
By Shane Tews | April 7, 2025
First Amendment law entails tradeoffs. Consider Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a case the US Supreme Court heard in January. It involves an online age-verification statute that ostensibly is designed…
By Clay Calvert | April 2, 2025
Earlier this month, I previewed the arguments in Federal Communications Commission v Consumers’ Research. The case asks the Supreme Court whether the FCC’s Universal Service Fund (USF) violates the nondelegation…
By Daniel Lyons | April 1, 2025
Last month, a federal appeals court confirmed what most legal regimes around the world—patent offices, administrative judges, and even supreme courts—have long held: Machines cannot themselves create. Readers of this…
By Michael M. Rosen | April 1, 2025
If there has been one inexorable trend in the telecommunications industry over the past 30 years, it has been the decline of the household landline phone connection. While Figure 1 illustrates the…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 26, 2025
A burgeoning battle among academics and attorneys involving a centuries-old communications technology––the printing press––could impact journalists’ current claims to constitutional protection against President Trump’s ceaseless attacks on news organizations. Indeed,…
By Clay Calvert | March 25, 2025
My most recent post “Haste Controls Waste!” sought to reconcile my misgivings about the speed of current government reforms with decades of staunch and thoroughgoing resistance. Now let’s talk about…
By Jim Harper | March 20, 2025
Policymakers are rushing to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), but the economic impact of these regulations remains largely unexplored. While the European Union and the United Kingdom have produced cost estimates, recent developments in the…
By Will Rinehart | March 19, 2025
If you study Fourth Amendment law and jurisprudential trends, you can—at least in a figurative, tentative, hopeful, and possibly illusory sense—see the future. Subject to all those caveats, I have…
By Jim Harper | March 18, 2025
As the US pushes for a TikTok ban and the EU leads the way in data-privacy regulation, experts warn that overly restrictive policies might inadvertently stifle innovation and economic growth.…
By Shane Tews | July 11, 2024
Is technology really addictive, or is that just another myth? What hidden benefits of AI are we overlooking? And how will the landscape of innovation shift as lawmakers tighten the…
By Shane Tews | June 27, 2024
NTIA is championing Route Origin Authorizations or ROA’s as part of the Biden Administration’s cybersecurity plan to fend off nation-state hackers and cyberattacks. In tandem with this effort, on June…
By Shane Tews | June 10, 2024
Outdated systems, sloppy code, and years of quick fixes have created a growing issue of “technical debt” in businesses. This unseen threat poses security risks, slows innovation, and leaves companies…
By Shane Tews | May 23, 2024
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected economically, blockchain-based financial networks offer new solutions for facilitating seamless international trade, remittances, and humanitarian aid. What specific advantages do blockchain-based financial networks offer…
By Shane Tews | May 9, 2024
The proliferation of cyber threats has evolved into a crisis: Last year, there were 880 million cybercrime complaints resulting in over $12 billion in losses. Analysts suggest that cybercrime is…
By Shane Tews | April 25, 2024