- Internet Sales Taxes From Borders to Amazon: How Long Before All of Your Purchases Are Taxed?By: Walter J. Baudier What so many internet consumers believe to be tax-free is actually subject to a state use tax. Faced with pressure from states that realize very little of the use tax ...
- Barriers to Innovation: Intellectual Property Transaction Costs in Scientific CollaborationBy: Megan Ristau Baca The institution of university science research has evolved over the past century, from one of open science and free information to one of competition and jealously guarded intellectual property rights. ...
- Fighting Terrorism in an Electronic Age: Does the Patriot Act Unduly Compromise Our Civil Liberties?By: Christopher P. Raab The USA PATRIOT Act is tremendously controversial, both lauded by law enforcement and decried by civil liberties groups. This iBrief considers two of the Act’s communications monitoring provisions, concluding that ...
- Anti-Employer Blogging: Employee Breach of the Duty of Loyalty and the Procedure for Allowing Discovery of a Blogger’s Identity Before Service of Process Is EffectedBy: Konrad Lee The rapid rise in anonymous anti-employer internet blogs by disgruntled employees has created a tension between the liberty interests of employees in free speech and privacy and employers’ rights to be ...
- Completing the Connection: Achieving Universal Service Through Municipal Wi-FiBy: K. Joon Oh The federal universal service scheme is designed to ensure that everyone has affordable access to advanced telecommunications and information services. Despite the development of cost-effective technologies that drastically reduce the ...