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Exclusively to FT.com, James Boyle, Richard Epstein, Thomas Hazlett and Eli Noam debate the regulatory and legal issues generated by - and also shaping - the high-tech industries. You can learn more about the contributors here on FT.com
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On a Clearwire, you can see everything
Sprint’s link-up with Clearwire blasts away barriers to broadband and a flock of public policy myths in the US, writes Thomas Hazlett
High-speed politics
Americans need a more honest debate on the nation’s information economy in this election campaign, says Eli Noam.
A Czar for the Digital Peasants
The US government wants to instal a new ‘czar’, this time for intellectual property. The peasants should revolt, says James Boyle
The Microsoft consent decree: a good start gone bad
Courts be warned – in anti-trust cases, it is imperative that the punishment imposed always fit the crime commited, writes Richard Epstein
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft: antitrust confusion
Antitrust laws are meant to encourage efficient mergers and disrupt the rest. But that careful delineation proves a challenge, writes Thomas Hazlett
TV or not TV?
Should we should abolish television regulation, asks Eli Noam? The future loooks like being a tale of three screens, including computers and mobile phones
Sacrificing at the altar of patents
Drug companies are willing to endanger global efforts to combat neglected diseases in a short-sighted effort to protect their patents, writes James Boyle
Special patent pleaders
A political impasse killed off the US’s ill-conceived Patent Reform Act but patent protection is still under threat. It is a stark warning, writes Richard Epstein
It’s the want of property rights
Spectrum allocation policy continues to be plagued by the lack of well-defined property rights, says Richard A. Epstein
It’s the spectrum, stupid
The US government’s $20bn airwave auction is welcome but late. A more liberal approach to use of the broadcasting spectrum would yield benefits for all, says Thomas Hazlett
