Intellectual property is a critical driver of economic prosperity. But there is a serious problem that our government needs to address to enhance the protection of IP and, thereby, to spur even further IP's contribution to the economy and job growth. Several foreign countries insufficiently...

As Intellectual Property becomes increasingly vital to our nation's wealth and prosperity, the need to ensure its protection on a global basis increases correspondingly. The American economy suffers staggering losses each year to international IP theft. According to the IP Theft Commission...

In 1909, Congress for the first time subjected intellectual property protections to compulsory licensing and rate regulation. A compulsory or statutory license is a legal requirement that mandates that the owner of the intellectual property allow third parties to make reproductions of the...

There is a raging debate over whether Congress should enact new laws mandating so-called net neutrality for broadband Internet service providers ("ISPs"). While there are several policy reasons why net neutrality mandates should not be adopted, an often overlooked and unappreciated legal reason...

This is the Foreword to a book, "Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age — The Next Five Years," which I edited and which is published by Carolina Academic Press in Durham, NC. The Foreword describes the contents of the book's nine chapters, which cover a broad range of current...

More than five years after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law, it would be hyperbolic to suggest that the Act has lived up to its promise. But it would be a mistake to give up on its promise, particularly with a new deregulatory-minded Federal Communications Commission...