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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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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

Anonymous judging in the EU

The Microsoft saga highlights how bureaucratic impersonality makes the Court of First Instance’s decisions unreadable and reduces its influence, writes Richard Epstein

And the band played on...

The European Commission thinks that extending the copyright over sound recordings to 95 years will not raise prices. The best study suggests the reverse, writes James Boyle

Make the user the gatekeeper

The cleanest solution to the debate over net neutrality is not pure regulation or competition. It is to give responsibility for the last mile of the network to end users, writes Eli Noam

The virtues of anti-trust surrender

It is in the competitive interests of companies to voluntarily abandon restrictive practices, writes Richard Epstein

US v Microsoft: who really won?

Ten years after the ‘anti-trust case of the century’, Microsoft’s empire has proved both more resilient and less evil than imagined

Legal analogies and metaphors in a high-tech age

Does a mixed model of private and common property law translate into cyberspace?

New Economy: Year in Review

Curb in-air delays for free

Two Minds About Charity

Helping young minds click

Music and illegality

A dangerous one-two punch

Economics 2.0? A business primer on virtual worlds

How the ‘walled garden’ promotes innovation

The irony of a web without science

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Online gaming grows, audience broadens: Activision and other video game publishers are increasingly looking to online and recurring subscriptions for extra, steadier revenue streams compared to the lumpy retail sales of games

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Martin Wolf

Seven habits finance regulators must acquire: Far tighter regulation is desirable in the longer-run interests of both the financial sector and the public, says Martin Wolf. So what, then, should such regulation look like?