I present a brief argument against both the use of the “monopoly” terminology for copyright and the related claim that copyright is incompatible with laissez-faire capitalism. To do so, I appeal to authority by looking at the writings of arguably the three most respected and vocal advocates...

This paper examines a recent study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Berkman Study was specifically requested by the Federal Communications Commission to “conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout...

In this BULLETIN, I study broadband deployment over the years 2014-2020 in Tribal and non-Tribal census tracts using the Federal Communications Commission’s Form 477 data to quantify progress. This “Tribal Gap” is measured as the difference in average broadband availability between Tribal...

Using data on the prices paid by multichannel video programing distributors (“MVPDs”) for basic cable networks, I conduct a retrospective analysis of the price effects of the Comcast-NBCU merger. Estimates from both the difference-in-differences and lagged-dependent variable models indicate...

In the heated debate over Net Neutrality, the effects of regulation on investment are a central concern, with special attention given to the presence or absence of investment effects from the FCC's 2010 proposal and subsequent controversial 2015 decision to reclassify broadband Internet access...

The Federal Communications Commission is coming under intense political pressure to reclassify broadband Internet access as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Yet, almost no attention has been directed at the fine details of how reclassification...

Fees levied by local franchise authorities on cable television operators are limited to a statutory five-percent cap, though franchise authorities often skirt that maximum levy by demanding additional monetary and in-kind concessions from cable operators. The Federal Communications Commission...

In this Perspective, I attempt to quantify, by a Spatial Logit Model, the magnitude of the overstatement of broadband availability resulting from the FCC's all-in assumption whereby an entire census block is deemed to have broadband available when a single home does so. Given the computational...