Cloud Computing

Competition Policy

• • Robert Willig, Jonathan Orszag and Gilad Levin, “An Economic Perspective on the Antitrust Case Against Intel,” (October 2009)
  • An Unravelling of the Digital Single Market: A Review of the Proposed AVSM (November 2016)
  • Standards, Licensing, and Innovation: A Response to DOJ AAG’s Comments on Antitrust Law and Standard-Setting (May 2018)
  • The Enduring Potency of the Microsoft Decision (April 2020)

Congressional Scorecards

• • 110th Congress High-Tech Scorecard
  • 110th Congress, 1st Session
  • 109th Congress

Copyright

• • Fair Use in the U.S. Economy (2007)
  • 2010 “Fair Use in the U.S. Economy” study (April 2010)
  • Economic contribution of EU industries relying on exceptions and limitations to copyright (June 2010)
  • Assessing the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries: Remarks and Alternatives (2011)
  • 2011 “Fair Use in the U.S. Economy” study (July 2011)
  • The Impact of Copyright Policy Changes in France and Germany on Venture Capital Investment in Cloud Computing Companies (June 2012)
  • The Search Fixation: Infringement, Search Results and Online Content (August 2013)
  • The Sky Is Rising: Luxury Goods (December 2014)
  • Understanding ‘Ancillary Copyright’ in the Global Intellectual Property Environment (February 2015)
  • Copyright Reform for a Digital Economy (August 2015)
  • The Ancillary Copyright for News Publishers: Why It’s Unjustified and Harmful (May 2016)
  • An Unravelling of the Digital Single Market: A review of the proposed AVMSD (November 2016)
  • Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: 2017 (June 2017)
  • Value Growth and the Music Industry: The Untold Story of Digital Success (November 2017)
  • Value Gap or Growth? How Digital Music Boosts Music Industry Growth (December 2019)

Government Competition

• • The Benefits and Costs of Implementing “Return-Free” Tax Filing in the U.S. (March2009)
  • Policy Analysis of a “Return Free” Tax System
  • The Role of Government in a Digital Age
  • The Benefits and Costs of I-File (Apr. 2008)
  • Public Policy Polling National Results on IRS/Tax Reform Survey (July 2013)

Intermediary Liability

• • Modernizing Liability Rules to Promote Internet Trade (September 2013)

Innovation Policy

• • Brian Kahin and Christopher Hill, “The Need for Continuity”
  • Beyond the Box: Innovation Policy in an Innovation-driven Economy
  • CCIA Policy Recommendations to USPTO (2008)
  • CCIA Policy Recommendations to NIST (2008)
  • CCIA Policy Recommendations to Obama Administration (January 2009)
  • The Internet: The Enabling Force of the 21st Century (October 2013)
  • Embracing the Internet Opportunity (September 2014)
  • The Internet: The New Helping the Old (March 2015)

Internet Freedom

Patents

• • CCIA White Paper: “Legalizing Innovation”: The Need for Real Patent Reform
  • Brian Kahin and Susana Borras, “Patent Reform in Europe and the United States,” Science and Public Policy, October 2009
  • CCIA White Paper: Patent Reform for a Digital Economy
  • CCIA White Paper: Patent Reform for a Digital Economy (Executive Summary only)
  • CCIA White Paper: Patent Reform for a Digital Economy (Recommendations only)
  • Principles for Patent Reform (included in White Paper)
  • Fact Sheet on 2005 Patent Reform Proposals
  • Brian Kahin, “Cyberinfrastructure and Innovation Policy,” First Monday, June 2007
  • Brian Kahin, “Patents and Diversity in Innovation,” Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 13, 2007
  • Brian Kahin, “Perspective: How Washington Reinvented Invention,” C|Net News, April 5, 2006
  • Brian Kahin, “Common and Uncommon Knowledge: Reducing Conflict between Standards and Patent”

Privacy

• • The Free Flow of Non-Personal Data in the European Union (November 2017)

Trade

• • Internet protectionism?

Technology Policy

• • The Role of Government in the Digital Age CCIA commissioned study by now Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz (2000)

Telecommunications

• • Study on “Network Neutrality Rules in Comparative Perspective: A Relatively Limited Intervention in the Market” (January 2010)
  • Information Age Economics (IAE) Report on “The Impact of Bidding Eligibility Conditions on Spectrum Auction Revenues” (Feb 2013)
  • CCIA Commissioned Study on European Digital Agenda and High Speed Broadband (April 2013)
  • EU Broadband Consumption Survey (September 2013)
  • Consumer Lock-In for Fixed Broadband: EU (September 2013)
  • Unlock the Box: How to Address Opposition and Boost Competition (August 2016)
  • CCIA Position Paper on the Proposal of the European Commission for an Electronic Communications Code (February 2017)