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Small Cable, Online Video Companies Warn of Anticompetition in Comcast, NBC Merger | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:35:00 -0500

That's when all worst things happen," said Tim Wu, a professor at the Columbia University School of Law who is writing a book that chronicles the history of ...

Biggest Net Neutrality Boosters Question FCC Proposal | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:11:00 -0500

"We trust Genachowski," said Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University and chairman of public interest group Free Press . Wu co-wrote the letter. ...

Feds Should Free Up Airwaves to Spur Wireless Growth | Washington Examiner

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:35:00 -0400

The auction-based system was a major improvement over its predecessor, a command-and-control approach that Tim Wu of Columbia Law School has called a ...

Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:03:00 -0400

Shepard Fairey may have hoped to teach something new about art and copyright with his iconic "Hope" poster of Barack Obama. Instead, he is accused of lyring about which Associated Press photo he used. (He says he made a mistake.) But if Fairey's lying has probably made a hash of his case and lost him a lawyer, it has also raised that pesky question yet again: Just what is fair use? Was it legal for Fairey to take an AP photo and turn it into this piece of artwork?

Too Much Transparency?

Erin Drankoski — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:24:00 -0400

Americans have an almost mystical faith that external controls on political power can produce good government. It is a faith in things like independent counsels, term limits, separation of powers, and Lawrence Lessig's interest, transparency systems. It approaches faith because, even when these cures continue to fail, we merely ask how they can be improved, not whether the whole approach is wrong. That is why, in his essay, Lessig does not go far enough. Naked transparency isn't the problem: It is our addiction to miracle cures that, since 1788, have done little for the patient.

Law Professors Support FCC in Comcast, BitTorrent Case | Broadcasting & Cable

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:31:00 -0400

A quintet of law professors including familiar names to net neutrality debates, Lawrence Lessig of Harvard and Tim Wu of Columbia, have weighed in with the court in support of the FCC's finding against Comcast in the BitTorrent case. ...

Will Net Neutrality Go Wireless? | MSNBC.com

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:27:00 -0400

The FCC has "the willpower to break this market open," says Tim Wu, a professor who specializes in technology at Columbia Law School. ...

Save the Google Book Search Deal!

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0400

There is a movement afoot to kill the Google Book Search deal. That's the settlement between Google, American publishers, and the Authors Guild to relaunch Google's book search, which would allow for new digital access to out-of-print books, free of legal problems. Microsoft warns that Google and America's publishers are "misusing the judicial system" to create a "monopoly in digital books." It is joined

Will Net Neutrality Go Wireless? | BusinessWeek

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:56:00 -0400

The FCC has "the willpower to break this market open," says Tim Wu, a professor who specializes in technology at Columbia Law School. ...

The FCC Takes On Wireless Carriers | The Takeaway

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:12:00 -0400

We talk with Tim Wu, professor of Law at Columbia University and co-author of the book, "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World. ...

Network Neutrality's Real Battle: Mobile | PC World

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:00 -0400

Two years ago, a debate over wireless net neutrality sparked up when Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor, made an argument for open wireless networks. ... Original Article

Subsidizing Creativity through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality

Erin Drankoski — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:58:00 -0400

Google CEO Quits Apple Board | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:00:00 -0400

"Apple believes it has a better product with a more closed system," said Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and chairman of public interest group Free Press. "But what may be good for Apple may not be good for innovation, and that is the battle that is going on here, the battle over what the future of the mobile platform will look like." Original article

Rivalry Between Apple and Palm Intensifies | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:54:00 -0400

Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia who specializes in telecommunications law, copyright and international trade, said, “There's something very unseemly about ... and more »

Opening the Wireless Internet | BusinessWeek

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:04:00 -0400

In November of 2007, I wrote about Carterfone and the law professor, Columbia's Tim Wu, who is trying to get the FCC to follow its landmark precedent ... and more »

Wikipedia Blocks Access from Church of Scientology in LA | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:53:00 -0400

Tim Wu, a professor of Internet law the chairman of Free Press, a media reform group, said that more and more, decisions about free speech are being made online. Websites such as Google, Facebook and Wikipedia now act as gatekeepers of information. ...

Saving Hollywood | Reuters

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:07:00 -0400

Some people, like Columbia law professor Tim Wu, are tempted to think that even though Pirate Bay is still functioning, the conviction proves that as a business model, movie piracy is dead in the water. Last year's box-office figures went through the ...

FCC's Copps: Let's Regulate! | Ars Technica

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:36:00 -0400

"We are at the end of the era of deregulation," Columbia University professor Tim Wu told the crowd as they explored the contents of their conference box lunches. They probably already figured as much, since they had just finished listening to interim ...

Unknown Internet 5: Is There Only One Internet? | New Scientist

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:05:00 -0400

"The language changes will accelerate national fragmentation of the internet," warns Tim Wu, professor of technology and law at Columbia University in New York. He predicts this will lead us down a road towards a divided internet: one part controlled ...

What's Killing the Newspaper and Who Will Save It?

Kate Schuler — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:15:00 -0400

A New America Event
03/12/2009 - 6:30pm

Almost ironically, we read in the newspapers every week that their industry is in crisis. Newspapers across the country are shuttering overseas bureaus, offering buyouts to dozens (even hundreds) of talented journalists, and in the process imperiling their capacity to serve as vital watchdogs over our constitutional system. How did we end up in a situation where a newspaper like The Washington Post, a fountainhead of Watergate and so much other skeptical and investigative reporting critical