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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?
