- Privacy, Free Speech & the Garden Grove Cyber Café Experiment
By: Brett Stohs
In response to gang violence at local “cyber cafés,” the City Council of Garden Grove, California, passed an ordinance requiring cyber cafés to install video surveillance systems. The constitutionality of the ...
- The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, & Modernization Act of 2003: Are We Playing the Lottery With Healthcare Reform?
By: Melissa Ganz
With millions of Americans unable to cope with the rising costs of prescription drugs, and many even forced to go without health insurance, the mounting pressure on Congress to enact major ...
- Protecting the Next Small Thing: Nanotechnology and the Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents
By: Andrew Wasson
If even a fraction of the predictions about nanotechnology are realized, our society will be a dramatically different and better place than it is today. Yet, due to the infancy of ...
- A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property
By: James Boyle
In this Manifesto, Professor Boyle claims that there are systematic errors in contemporary intellectual property policy and that WIPO has an important role in helping to correct them.
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- Virtual Shareholder Meetings
By: Elizabeth Boros
Electronic communication impacts how widely-held corporations conduct shareholder meetings. For example, technology has facilitated such options as electronic proxy voting, remote electronic voting, and “virtual meetings.” This iBrief examines the idea ...