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

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 virtues of anti-trust surrender

US v Microsoft: who really won?

Legal analogies and metaphors in a high-tech age

New Economy: Year in Review

Curb in-air delays for free

Two Minds About Charity

Helping young minds click

Music and illegality