“Tense Times for Web Phone Apps” eWeek, Oct. 4, 2009. Larry’s blog on Net Neutrality was quoted in this article by Clint Boulton on AT&T’s objections to Google Phone’s non-carrier behavior. “In that issue, I’ve already written that I don’t think Google Voice should get a free pass, and it turns out I’m not the [...]

“Information Age: Will The Internet Survive its 40th?” The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1, 2009. R. Gordon Crovitz’s column on Net Neutrality quotes extensively from Larry and from “The Laws of Disruption.” “The mistake regulators and those who enable them continue to make is trying to micromanage individual technologies or applications,” Mr. Downes writes. “The [...]

“AT&T Slams Google Voice” The Washington Post, Sept. 30, 2009. The Post’s “Post I.T.” column on the Net Neutrality debate quotes from Larry’s blog. “‘Much as the FCC wishes there was still a clear distinction between ‘the Internet’ and ‘the telephone network,’ technology has obliterated that difference,’ Larry Downes, a non-resident fellow at the Stanford [...]

Hearsay Culture (Stanford Radio) Larry Downes was the guest on this radio program focused on issues of law and technology in November, 2009.

Intel and AMD announced today that they were settling their many antitrust and patent disputes, with Intel to pay $1.25 billion and the two companies to cross-license the affected patents. Intel also agreed to “a set of undisclosed new business practrices,” as The New York Times puts it. Let’s be clear what this agreement doesn’t [...]

My view on today’s Supreme Court case regarding business method and software patents appears in The Big Money. This case, which concerns the patentability of a paper-and-pencil system for hedging weather risks in consumer energy prices, drew over sixty friend-of-the-court briefs, more than any other case this term. The reason has little to do with [...]

Strategy under The Law of Disruption requires attention to detail. Two recent articles with competing views of the fate of Hollywood content producers caught my attention.  The first, by CNET’s Greg Sandoval, reiterates long-standing predictions that for current industry giants the Internet spells doom.   “[T]he end is coming,” Sandoval concludes, “for DVDs, traditional movie [...]

The Laws of Disruption was reviewed today in The Financial Times by the paper’s interactive editor, Robert Minto.  Mr. Minto writes,”The book exposes many outdated laws and regulations that have been (mis-)applied to cases concerning online activity and technology. There are also some eye-opening passages that expose how consumers have become confused by illusions of [...]

For those in the Bay Area, I will be moderating a discussion on “The Laws of Disruption” at a Churchill Club breakfast on Nov. 19th in Mountain View, CA. Event information can be found here: http://churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=844 Hope to see you all there!

The amazing L. Gordon Crovitz cited The Laws of Disruption and an interview with me in his “Information Age” column for Monday, November 2, 2009. Thanks, Gordon!