…ago and exemplified by Java, MySQL and numerous “freemium” sites such as Dropbox, Evernote, etc., available today. (This complaint is even stranger given that Nokia open-sourced its own mobile operating…

Glenn Manishin · April 16, 2013

This morning the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force released a long-awaited “White Paper on Remixes, First Sale, and Statutory Damages.” The paper stems from a July 2013 “Green Paper”…

Matt Schruers · January 28, 2016

…anyone competing with similar services. But the key aspect of competition law enforcement is that it’s not about a subjective judgment of what is ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’. Competition law is…

Jakob Kucharczyk · June 29, 2017

I have completed the third volume of a history of the global legal debate concerning copyright and competition in the software industry. The debate has centered on two related issues….

Jonathan Band · October 19, 2016

…waive fees, and open WiFi points. Yesterday, AT&T made a related commitment to waive the broadband usage cap for users, and Comcast promised to provide new customers its ‘Internet Essentials’…

Matt Schruers · March 13, 2020

…Judge Koh issued her anxiously-awaited ruling in the FTC v. Qualcomm litigation. The 233-page opinion extensively describes Qualcomm’s anti-competitive conduct, how it has harmed both existing and potential competitors as…

Josh Landau · June 3, 2019

…Watch, Access, and Freedom House; (f) more than 30 IP and Internet law professors; (g) National Alliance for Media Art and Culture and Alliance for Community Media; and (h) the…

Ali Sternburg · November 1, 2013

…computer “how to perform the method.” The declaration determined the command a programmer could use to call the method. The implementing code, conversely, was completely invisible to the programmer. Accordingly,…

Jonathan Band · October 4, 2019

…have been a landmark example of harmful rules to internet services and freedom of discourse. “Significant” social media companies—those with more than five million users, thereby enveloping many U.S. suppliers—are…

Amir Nasr · April 21, 2023

…that what may seem like different sectors (search, mobile, e-commerce, etc.) are not completely separate; boundaries are becoming even more blurred, and companies are offering new products and services in…

Ali Sternburg · January 16, 2013