“Gripes over Google Books go Technical”, CNET News.com, Feb. 11, 2010. Larry notes that the Justice Department’s objections to the final version of the Google Books settlement, now under advisement by the judge in the case, shifted ever-so-significantly to the merely technical. Is the government conceding the settlement is a done deal?

I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor .  Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google.    At the increasingly congested intersection of technology and the law, Google seems to be involved in most of the accidents. Just to name a few of the more recent [...]

I’ll be participating in a panel discussion at the Chapman Law School in Orange, CA on March 29th at noon. The panel is titled, “Internet ‘Neutrality’: Reform or ‘Fairness Doctrine Censorship.” If you’re in the area, please try to attend.

I published an opinion piece today for CNET arguing against recent calls to reclassify broadband Internet as a “telecommunications service” under Title II of the Communications Act. The push to do so comes as supporters of the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules fear that the agency’s authority to adopt them under its so-called “ancillary jurisdiction” [...]

“Talk at Microsoft Research”, Microsoft Research, Feb. 28, 2010. Larry’s talk at Microsoft Research is now available.

I’ve joined with the other courageous souls of the Technology Liberation Front and will be writing on their behalf starting immediately. (Two posts already this week.) The TLF is a loosely-affiliated group of “libertarian-minded analysts working in the field of technology policy” who “analyze and critique the important developments of the day. We will not [...]

I’m quoted briefly in a story today in E-Commerce Times (see “Apple’s Patent Attack:  This Too May be Overhyped” by Erika Morphy) about the patent lawsuit filed this week by Apple against rival mobile device maker HTC. Apple, of course, produces the iPhone, while HTC makes Google’s Nexus One and other devices that run on [...]

Larry will be a guest on March 3rd’s edition of “The Conversation” on Seattle’s KUOW public radio station.