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PFF flash
Informing you of the latest PFF activities and publications |
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Upcoming PFF Events
New Publications
- Inadvertent Filesharing Revisited: Assessing LimeWire's Responses to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Progress on Point 14.22
Tom Sydnor, John Knight, Lee Hollaar, October 2007
Authors of a USPTO report comment on software company's actions to subvert inadvertent filesharing
- Unplugging Plug-and-Play Regulation
Progress on Point 14.21
Adam Thierer, October 2007
FCC should not mandate standards in cable application market
- Parental Control Perfection? The Impact of the DVR and VOD Boom on the Debate over TV Content Regulation
Progress on Point 14.20
Adam Thierer, October 2007
Technologies that empower parents to control media consumption undermine regulatory rationales
- Media Deregulation Is Dead
Progress Snapshot 3.17
Adam Thierer, November 2007
Revision of media ownership rule will do little for deregulation
- FCC's 70% Cable Proposal is 100% Unwarranted
Progress Snapshot 3.16
Adam Thierer, November 2007
FCC regulation of cable is not justified
- Cable Con
Progress Snapshot 3.15
Adam Thierer, November 2007
Response to opinion piece on a la carte cable pricing
- First Generation Filtering: Milestones and Millstones
Progress Snapshot 3.14
Solveig Singleton, November 2007
Filtering for copyrighted content and liability issues
- Racketeering Enterprises on Campus
Progress Snapshot 3.13
Tom Sydnor, November 2007
Fighting illegal filesharing on college networks
- Managing the Network? Rethink Prices, not Net Neutrality
Progress Snapshot 3.12
Scott Wallsten, October 2007
Metered broadband pricing should be used for traffic management
- Net Neutrality: A Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
Progress Snapshot 3.11
Adam Thierer, October 2007
Network neutrality mandates violate the First Amendment
Activities of Note
- Sydnor to Speak at WIPO Copyright Conference In Malaysia
Tom Sydnor, PFF Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, has been invited to speak at the Asia-Pacific Forum of Heads of Intellectual Property Offices, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Sydnor is scheduled to give a series of presentations comparing US and international standards for digital-age copyright protection.
- Thierer Interviewed on Regulation of Cable Industry
On November 26th, PFF Senior Fellow Adam Thierer was a guest on Bloomberg Television's "Money and Politics." Thierer, Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, debated the FCC's recent claim that the Commission was justified in proposing additional regulation of the cable industry due to penetration rates.
- Wallsten Shares Expertise on Telecom Policy
PFF Senior Fellow Scott Wallsten will be discussing and debating telecommunications policy at two upcoming events. Wallsten, PFF's Director of Communications Studies, is scheduled to give a presentation on broadband and unbundling policies at the University of Colorado on November 29th. He will also participate in a December 5th debate on international broadband penetration rankings at the Practicing Law Institute's 25th Annual Institute on Telecom Policy & Regulation.
Earlier this month, Wallsten was a speaker at the forum, "The Economics of War, Peace, and Security," hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Wallsten discussed his study on the cost of the Iraq War.
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