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The Golden Age of Streaming Has Begun, Enjoy Every Episode
Less than two weeks before the release of “Wonder Woman 1984,” Roku Inc. and WarnerMedia had yet to reach a deal that would allow for the streaming of the movie or any other HBOMax content on Roku. Reportedly, Roku had set tough terms and WarnerMedia was refusing to...
IEI Files Amici Curiae Brief on Massachusetts Port Authority Vs. Turo Inc.
Massport v. Turo - Brief of amici curiae
FCC Chairman Pai Proposes Two Big Wins for American Innovation
FCC Chairman Pai has included an item on the November 18th meeting agenda to free up a slice of spectrum for public use. No longer will it continue to be hoarded by the federal government and left unused. The spectrum in question is the 5.9 band which has been held...
Child Safety for the Virtual Era
Because of the response to COVID, a variety of local and state governments have required many of the nation’s children to attend class online. To try to maintain some sort of social contact many of those same kids are increasingly using electronic devices of various...
Regulatory Leadership, Investment, and the Marketplace: Helping America Succeed in a Pandemic
Regulatory or legislative moves by federal, state, or local governments that presume to know the direction of invention and innovation often lead to any number of unintended consequences. This is regulatory hubris typically resulting in great disruptions to innovation...
Washington’s ‘Knowledge Problem’ About Innovation, Technology and Google
Frequent antitrust interventions into the economy have thankfully been out of fashion in recent years. However, about once a decade Washington uses government’s biggest hammer against industry, antitrust law, in an effort to smash a disfavored company. This is one of...
Is DoD Control of Our 5G Future the US Path to Innovation?
Earlier this week the Department of Defense concluded the time it allowed for people to submit information regarding the Department’s plan to own and operate a national 5G network. The DoD was seeking guidance on how it could support and develop 5G deployment for...
The Last Mile of the Last Mile
Internet access and broadband coverage across the country is one of the many great American success stories of the innovation economy. For the last decade broadband service providers have made major investments, typically ranking as the largest capital-expenditure...
CCPA critics warn innovation could lose under the law. What’s at stake?
Companies built empires on user data — information volunteered in exchange for services. But with heightened privacy scrutiny, could those companies survive today? The California Consumer Privacy Act is challenging how companies use data and testing their viability....
Big Government Won’t Improve Broadband in Rural California
Pick nearly any state in the union and likely it has a large swath of rural area and population. Even California, which is rarely thought of as a “rural state,” is still physically more than half rural, with about four million residents living in those areas. Many...