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link tra copyright liability e cloud computing
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 9, 2011

Nov. 9, 2011

The Impact of Copyright Policy Changes on Venture Capital Investment in Cloud Computing Companies By Josh Lerner (Harvard University) 1. Introduction This paper examines the effect of copyright policy changes on venture capital (VC) investment in cloud computing companies. To do this, we analyze the effect on venture investment in cloud computing firms of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals' August 2008 decision in The Cartoon Network, et al. v. Cablevision, which was widely seen as easing certain ambiguities surrounding the intellectual property standing of these firms in the U.S. Our findings suggest that decisions around the scope of copyrights can have significant impacts on investment and innovation. We find that VC investment in cloud computing firms increased significantly in the U.S. relative to the EU after the Cablevision decision. Our results suggest that the Cablevision decision led to additional incremental investment in U.S. cloud computing firms that ranged from $728 million to approximately $1.3 billion over the two-and-a-half years after the decision. When paired with the findings of the enhanced effects of VC investment relative to corporate investment, this may be the equivalent of $2 to $5 billion in traditional R&D investment. Full paper qui: http://www.ccianet.org/CCIA/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000000559/Cabl…

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Fwd: IGF al via: partecipare e seguire i lavori, anche in livestreaming
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 9, 2011

Nov. 9, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IGF al via: partecipare e seguire i lavori, anche in livestreaming Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:45:26 +0100 From: Laura Abba <Laura.Abba(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Reply-To: Gruppo di confronto e lavoro sul processo dell'IGF Italia <IGF(a)IGF-ITALIA.IT> To: IGF(a)IGF-ITALIA.IT *IGF al via: partecipare e seguire i lavori, anche in livestreaming* Tutto pronto per l'inaugurazione dell'edizione*italiana 2011 dell'Internet Governance Forum* http://igfitalia2011.it. *Domani dalle 9.00*la tre giorni dedicata al futuro della Rete*aprirà ufficialmente* i battenti con oltre 20 seminari e circa 100 relatori coinvolti. *Per quanti non potranno essere a Trento e partecipare in prima persona all' IGF, sarà comunque possibile seguire i diversi convegni grazie al servizio di livestreaming.* Il sito della manifestazione, infatti, ospiterà una sezione apposita per seguire in diretta tutti gli eventi previsti in programma a partire dalla 9.00 di domani. Inoltre, nelle giornate seguenti le giornate dell'IGF, saranno messi online anche i video on demand dei diversi panel succedutesi a Trento. Per tutti coloro che invece saranno a Trento per seguire i lavori di IGF, all'interno delle Gallerie di Piedicastello - sede che ospiterà i valori dell'evento - sarà operativa una connessione SSID BandaLarga (al desk di registrazione e negli spazi dei seminari saranno illustrate le istruzioni per la registrazione e l'accesso). Non mancheranno uno spazio dedicato alle pubblicazioni e ai libri e un punto bar-ristoro. Trentino network e l'organizzazione di IGF, inoltre, mettono gratuitamnete a disposizione il servizio di emebedd per seguire l'evento. Di seguito rendiamo pubblici i codici da inserire nelle pagine Html, così da permettere ad altri siti, blog, piattaforme, social network di diffondere in diretta streaming i lavori di Igf Italia 2011. **************************************************** Stream A:http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/test-livea.html **************************************************** <body> <object width="460? height="345?> <param name="movie" value="http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="src=rtmp%3A%2F%2Flive01.tn.ymir.eu%2Flive%2FliveA&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&endOfVideoOverlay=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&streamType=live&autoPlay=true&scaleMode=zoom&controlBarMode=floating"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf"type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="460? height="345? flashvars="src=rtmp%3A%2F%2Flive01.tn.ymir.eu%2Flive%2FliveA&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&endOfVideoOverlay=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&streamType=live&autoPlay=true&scaleMode=zoom&controlBarMode=floating"></embed> </object> **************************************************** Stream B:http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/test-liveb.html **************************************************** <object width="460? height="320?> <param name="movie" value="http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="src=rtmp%3A%2F%2Flive01.tn.ymir.eu%2Flive%2FliveB&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&endOfVideoOverlay=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&streamType=live&autoPlay=true&scaleMode=zoom&controlBarMode=floating"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://player.ymir.eu/osmf/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf"type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="460? height="320? flashvars="src=rtmp%3A%2F%2Flive01.tn.ymir.eu%2Flive%2FliveB&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&endOfVideoOverlay=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.ymir.eu%2Fosmf%2Fposter.jpg&streamType=live&autoPlay=true&scaleMode=zoom&controlBarMode=floating"></embed> </object> -- _______________________________________________ *LAURA ABBA* Technical Executive (Dirigente Tecnologo) *CNR IIT Internet Governance Secretariat* CNR Italian National Research Council IIT Institute for Informatics and Telematics Via G. Moruzzi, 1- 56126 Pisa, (ITALY) _______________________________________________ phone: +39 050 3152633 mobile: +39 348 7981001 fax: +39 050 3152593 e-mail: laura.abba(a)cnr.it webpage:*http://www.iit.cnr.it/en/node/201* _______________________________________________

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] F.C.C. Push to Expand Net Access Gains Help
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 9, 2011

Nov. 9, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] F.C.C. Push to Expand Net Access Gains Help Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:18:47 -0800 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org F.C.C. Push to Expand Net Access Gains Help http://j.mp/tS1Lms (New York Times) "On Wednesday, the F.C.C. will announce commitments from most of the big cable companies in the United States to supply access for $9.99 a month to a subset of low-income households. The low introductory price is meant to appeal to new customers who have not had broadband in the past." - - - Two years, minimum downstream speed 1 Mb/s. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator

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In: Tutela dei diritti nell’era digitale, incontro ISIMM il 16 novembre a Roma
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Nov. 9, 2011

Nov. 9, 2011

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Fwd: [report-release-list] Berkman Paper Release: Yochai Benkler's Working Paper on "Unlicensed Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 8, 2011

Nov. 8, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [report-release-list] Berkman Paper Release: Yochai Benkler's Working Paper on "Unlicensed Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption" Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:04:10 -0500 From: Amar Ashar <ashar(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> To: report-release-and-press-list(a)eon.law.harvard.edu Good Morning, The Berkman Center is pleased to share a working paper from Harvard Law School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler on "*Unlicensed Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption*." *Find the abstract below and download the full working paper here: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7211> * The paper reviews evidence from eight wireless markets: mobile broadband; wireless healthcare; smart grid communications; inventory management; access control; mobile payments; fleet management; and secondary markets in spectrum. Yochai Benkler finds that markets are adopting unlicensed wireless strategies in mission-critical applications, in many cases more so than they are building on licensed strategies. Eighty percent of wireless healthcare; seventy percent of smart grid communications; and forty to ninety percent of mobile broadband data to smartphones and tablets use unlicensed strategies. Unlicensed technologies are entirely dominant in inventory management and access control. For mobile payments, current major applications use unlicensed, and early implementations of mobile phone payments suggest there is no particular benefit to licensed strategies in this space. Fleet management is the one area where licensed technologies are predominant. However, UPS, owner of the second largest commercial fleet in the U.S., has implemented its fleet management system purely with unlicensed wireless, suggesting that even here unlicensed may develop attractive alternatives. By contrast to these dynamic markets, secondary markets in licensed spectrum have been anemic. Market evidence suggests that unlicensed wireless strategies are becoming the primary approach for implementing wireless communications technology. As Congress and the FCC seek ways to transition away from older technologies, the paper recommends that they should adopt policies explicitly designed to assure that unlicensed wireless innovation has at least as much room to grow as licensed wireless approaches. Comments on the paper can be sent to <yochai_benkler(a)harvard.edu>. Benkler also writes on "Selling Our Wireless Future" on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yochai-benkler/selling-our-wireless-futu_b_10… We welcome you to share this research with colleagues, students, friends, and others that may be interested. Best, Amar Ashar Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University

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Internet governance v. Internet government
by luca belli Nov. 8, 2011

Nov. 8, 2011

Cari Tutti, Per chi fosse interessato al seguito della proposta IBSA, di cui ho parlato un mese fa al centro NEXA, ecco qualche spunto : [...]During the IBSA meeting, held in Rio de Janeiro on September 1-2, the Trilateral focused on Internet governance, highlighting which policy and regulatory issues were to be considered as a priority. Moreover, acting in accordance with its framework agreement for Cooperation on the Information Society, IBSA tried to determine which institutional changes could be established on a global level and recommended that “an appropriate body is urgently required in the UN system to coordinate and evolve coherent and integrated global public policies pertaining to the Internet”. [...] Continua qui Buona giornata ! Luca Belli Doctorant en Droit Public, CERSA Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2PRES Sorbonne Universités

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[Fwd: [Creis _Terminal] La DSI du Courrier de La Poste propose des st ages de 3 à 6 mois pour des étudiants]
by mariella.berra＠unito.it Nov. 7, 2011

Nov. 7, 2011

Carissimi forse puo' essere interessante farlo ccircolare Cari saluti mariella Berra ------------------ Messaggio originale ------------------- Oggetto: [Creis_Terminal] La DSI du Courrier de La Poste propose des stages de 3 à 6 mois pour des étudiants Da: "David Fayon" <david.fayon(a)gmail.com> Data: Lun, 7 Novembre 2011, 5:05 pm A: creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org Cc: "David FAYON" <david.fayon(a)laposte.fr> ---------------------------------------------------------- Bonjour, La branche Courrier de La Poste et plus particulièrement sa direction du système d'information propose des stages pour des étudiants de niveau Master 1 et 2 et 2e et 3e année d'école pour le développement de nouveaux services (courrier hybride, offres sur smartphone, etc.). Le développement de nouveaux services représente un enjeu fort pour La Poste pour trouver de nouveaux relais de croissance pour l'activité Courrier. Nos besoins portent dans 3 domaines : - Graphisme/Design : ergonomie des applications, y compris pour les mobiles (utilisation doutils de type Photoshop, Illustrator et outils en open source) pour concevoir de nouvelles IHM ; - Conception/développement : XHTML, CSS, MySQL, PHP 5 orienté objet, C#, Java, amélioration dapplications existantes et conception de nouvelles (PC et smartphones) ; - Marketing : inventer et définir de nouvelles applications répondant aux nouveaux usages, rédiger des cahiers des charges, présenter les nouveaux concepts aux équipes marketing de la direction du siège de La Poste. Aussi, nous avons besoin de 3 types profils : ingénieur/développeur, école de commerce, école de design/graphisme. Nous recherchons des étudiants qui ont un esprit innovant, qui sont passionnés par le web et dynamiques avec la capacité de travailler en équipe. Notre capacité est de 50 stagiaires/apprentis/contrats de professionnalisation par an au sein de la DSI du Courrier de La Poste qui comprend un peu plus de 800 personnes. Les stages en particulier pour les 2e et 3e année décole (Bac + 4 / Bac + 5) et les Master 1 et 2 sont pour des durées de 3 à 6 mois. A lissue des stages, des premières embauches en CDI peuvent être proposées selon nos besoins et les potentiels des stagiaires. Les stages seffectuent principalement sur 3 sites : St Quentin en Yvelines, Champs sur Marne, Montpellier Un CV et une lettre de motivation sont à faire parvenir à David Fayon (par mél à dsi.innovation(a)laposte.fr) avec la référence CREIS. Nous pouvons également proposer 1 thèse par an. Merci de relayer linformation. Bien cordialement, David Fayon Responsable Prospective et veille SI La Poste/Direction du Courrier/Direction du Système dInformation Tél. 01 55 44 03 53 _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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Roma Open Data Workshop
by lorenzo benussi Nov. 7, 2011

Nov. 7, 2011

Ciao a tutti, martedì, mercoledì e giovedì prossimi 8-9-10 novembre si svolgeranno a Roma due eventi che danno il via al percorso Open Data del Comune di Roma. Si tratta di workshop e di una mini competizione su un primo subset di dati che saranno pubblicati sul portale Roma Capitale Open Data, previsto per i primi di Dicembre. L'obiettivo è mettere a disposizione i dati per progettare e/o realizzare soluzioni innovative, utili, interessanti, ecc. La partecipazione è libera ma occorre iscriversi qui www.opendata.comune.roma.it Vi pregherei di dare massima diffusione alla notizia. Grazie, lorenzo

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denominazione gruppo costituito all'interno di facebook e segni distintivi ordinanza del Tribunale di Torino
by Mauro Alovisio Nov. 7, 2011

Nov. 7, 2011

gent.mi segnalo da altra lista news sulla denominazione di un gruppo su facebook e segni distintivi (v. ordinanza del Trib. Torino, Ord. 6-7-2011. Sezione Specializzata in materia di proprietà industriale ed intellettuale) http://t.co/ldRiF6Lr mi scuso qualora fosse già postata cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio http://t.co/ldRiF6Lr La denominazione di un Gruppo Facebook costituisce segno distintivo atipico (Trib. Torino, Ord. 6-7-2011) Il Tribunale di Torino, Sez. Specializzata in materia di proprietà industriale ed intellettuale, con l’Ordinanza del 6-07-2011, pronunciata nel Procedimento nr. 19145, R.G. 2011, si è interrogato sulla qualificazione giuridica della denominazione di un “Gruppo” costituito all’interno di Facebook. Il Tribunale ha ritenuto che nell’ipotesi in cui il soggetto che avvia i contatti e calamita le “amicizie virtuali” di un “Gruppo” costituito all’interno di Facebook è dichiaratamente un imprenditore, il tenore dei rapporti con gli utenti del Gruppo normalmente operanti in un ambito meramente sociale, muta e si intride di rilevanza economica e di potenzialità commerciale. Pertanto il “Gruppo” costituito all'interno del social network Facebook può rappresentare un caso di segno distintivo atipico, suscettibile di tutela contro l'interferenza confusoria, quantomeno ai sensi dell'art.2598, n.1, cod. civ.., che protegge, in generale, anche i "segni legittimamente usati da altri" quale fattispecie espressamente considerata di atto idoneo a creare confusione con i prodotti e l'attività del concorrente. La vicenda de qua trae origine dalla realizzazione del Gruppo Facebook della società Alfa S.r.l. da parte di un dipendente di quest’ultima. Nella relativa pagina erano presenti riferimenti ai prodotti (abbigliamento sportivo) commercializzati dalla Società Alfa, nonché un collegamento ipertestuale al sito internet della società medesima. Successivamente alla dipartita del dipendente dalla società Alfa, quest’ultimo ha iniziato a prestare la propria attività lavorativa a favore della società Beta S.r.l. (di cui era titolare la moglie), attiva nel medesimo settore merceologico ed ha provveduto a modificare il nome del Gruppo in questione da Alfa a Beta, modificando, di conseguenza, il collegamento ipertestuale, ma lasciando inalterati alcuni riferimenti ai prodotti commercializzati dalla società Alfa, nonché al marchio di quest’ultima. Inoltre, il soggetto in questione ha provveduto ad inviare comunicazioni scritte a tutti i contatti del Gruppo, invitandoli ad andare a visitare il sito della società Beta, espressamente definito come “nuovo sito internet della società Alfa”. Pertanto, il Tribunale adito, riconoscendo che la creazione di un Gruppo Facebook, in siffatta ipotesi mirasse allo sfruttamento delle potenzialità di Internet e del notissimo social network per la realizzazione di una molteplicità di contatti privilegiati e interattivi con soggetti interessati a una determinata categoria di prodotti (l’abbigliamento sportivo), ha, quindi sostenuto che tale strumento avrebbe perciò acquisito una precisa rilevanza economica, costituendo un segno distintivo atipico, tutelabile ai sensi dell’art. 2598, n. 1 c.c., contro l’interferenza confusoria. Il Tribunale ha giustificato la propria interpretazione, sottolineando come la Suprema Corte (Cass.civ. 3.12.2010 n.24620), avesse attribuito rilievo in questa prospettiva all'uso di segni distintivi atipici (dominio internet) in presenza di una funzione pubblicitaria e suggestiva del segno, finalizzata ad attrarre il consumatore nell'orbita dell'imprenditore, che si identifica e segnala sul mercato, nella fattispecie nella rete Internet. Restava, infine, da stabilire se il mero fatto della creazione dell’originario Gruppo Facebook da parte dell’allora dipendente della società Alfa potesse o meno comportare l’acquisizione della piena titolarità dei diritti sul medesimo Gruppo da parte di quest’ultimo. Il Tribunale ha, però, rilevato che l’attività tesa a creare il più volte menzionato Gruppo Facebook era stata posta in essere dal dipendente nell’interesse esclusivo della Società di appartenza, a nulla, peraltro, rilevando le specifiche regole di Facebook in materia di creazione e/o modifica dei contenuti immessi dagli utenti. Le suddette regole, nell’opinione dell’organo giudicante, non possono costituire, infatti, una lex specialis suscettibile di derogare alle norme cogenti dell’ordinamento. Ciò premesso, il Tribunale, riscontrando gli elementi sintomatici della confusione e dello sviamento di clientela a favore della nuova società Beta ha, quindi, imposto ai resistenti, ex. artt. 669 sexies e 700 c.p.c., nonché 131 C.p.i, il ripristino della originaria denominazione del Gruppo e l’astensione da qualsivoglia futuro intervento sul predetto Gruppo.Visualizza altro

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Benkler sul wireless
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 7, 2011

Nov. 7, 2011

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/selling-our-wireless-future.html Selling Our Wireless Future This is a cross post/guest post by one of our guiding lights at USV, Yochai Benkler <https://twitter.com/#%21/YochaiBenkler>. Yochai is a law professor at Harvard, author <http://www.amazon.com/Yochai-Benkler/e/B001IO9PSA/>, and a deep thinker about the Internet and its impact on economics, law, and society. We are huge fans. ------------------------- As the deficit supercommittee searches every corner to make budgetary ends meet, one solution they are considering, "incentive auctions" of the TV bands, could threaten the future of wireless innovation. These auctions may lock in an outdated regulatory paradigm, strengthen the dominant mobile broadband carriers, and block the path for some of the most innovative wireless technologies that could improve mobile broadband speed and reduce its price over the next decade. In return, the revenue they will raise is a very modest 1.5 percent of the 1.6 trillion dollar package. The auctions would trade off a small short-term revenue gain for less growth and innovation over the coming decade. The proposed spectrum auctions are being promoted under the false premise that boosting mobile broadband, smart grid communications, inventory management systems, mobile payments, and health monitoring requires auctioning exclusive pieces of licensed spectrum. In reality, these markets are fast developing through unlicensed wireless applications, like WiFi. When the iPhone crashed AT&T's mobile broadband capacity, the company didn't buy more spectrum on secondary markets; it used WiFi to carry much of the data. In the past year WiFi traffic on AT&T's hotspots has tripled. Today, about half of iPhone and 90 percent of iPad page views are carried over WiFi. Indeed, almost two-thirds of all smartphone and tablet data traffic is carried over WiFi rather than over the carriers' networks, whose hunger is driving the demand for auctioning TV bands. In Japan, a good place to see the near future of mobile broadband, the second largest mobile carrier contracted a California firm to roll out 100,000 hotspots as a core strategy for its next generation mobile broadband network. But it's not only mobile broadband. When you use your E-Z Pass at a toll booth or Speedpass at the gas station, you use unlicensed technology like WiFi, but in a different band. When Wal-Mart moved its field-defining inventory management system to the next generation, it used technology that uses spectrum on the same principle: unlicensed wireless. Almost the entire market for inventory management and access control is now driven by unlicensed wireless technologies. Almost seventy percent of U.S. Smart Grid communications market is served by firms that use WiFi and similar technologies, and by a one recent account, about eighty percent of the wireless market in the healthcare sector depends on an array of unlicensed strategies. These dynamic markets are telling us something new: The future of wireless will likely be mostly unlicensed, with an important, but residual role of auctioned, licensed services. And yet the drive to auctions simply ignores the evidence from actual markets in favor of an outmoded regulatory ideal that is the opposite of what cutting edge radio engineering and dynamic markets show. Most of these applications were developed using junk bands, where regulators dumped industrial equipment and microwave ovens. They thrived even in these harsh conditions, but in an effort to open up new, less wasteland-like areas for these dynamic, innovative technologies, the last Republican and current Democratic FCC chairs presided over the bipartisan creation of TV White Spaces, a policy that permits device manufacturers to expand the capabilities of unlicensed devices by sharing the TV bands with broadcasters. The TV Band auctions being pushed through the supercommittee threaten to displace these white space devices. As we look at the enormous success of unlicensed wireless strategies across the most dynamic markets, we see that doing so is penny wise, pound foolish. Not only will auctions burden development of unlicensed strategies, if the last major auction is any indication, they will allow AT&T and Verizon to foreclose competition in their markets. When AT&T argued in defense of its T-Mobile merger, it said that T-Mobile wasn't much of a competitor "without the spectrum to deploy a 4G LTE network." But the reason T-Mobile lacks that spectrum is that Verizon and AT&T already own 78 percent of the spectrum bands needed. The new auctions would extend Verizon and AT&T's foreclosure to the TV Bands as well, constraining not only competitors like T-Mobile, but the whole field of unlicensed strategies as well. As a revenue source, spectrum auctions are a particularly pernicious tax on wireless innovation. They pick the wrong technology for wireless infrastructure by regulatory fiat, and strengthen the market dominance of already-dominant players. The costs of this policy to innovation and growth greatly outweigh its revenue benefits, and the supercommittee simply does not have the time to learn enough to avoid doing more harm than good.

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