Continuations

I know that with everything going on here in the US it is hard to find the time to even think about other parts of the world, but the EU is currently losing its mind when it comes to copyright. If you have been following my blog here for some time, or read my book World After Capital, you know I think that copyright ought to be rolled back. Well the EU, is about to go in the opposite direction, massively expanding the obligations for online services to pre-clear rights before publishing anyth...

The European Union launched an Antitrust Complaint against Google over Android. It is a shame that we keep coming back to using antitrust legislation to try to deal with issues of concentration and market power in information industries. We need alternative regulatory tools that are more in line with how computation works and why the properties of information tend to lead to concentration. We want networks and network effects to exist because of their positive externalities. Imagine as a coun...