Author Archives: Timothy B Lee

Jerry Brito’s new podcast is even better when I’m not the guest. His latest episode features Michael Sawyer, of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, who has written about the User-Generated Content Principles that were negotiated between copyright holders … Continue reading →

Yesterday I attended a panel here at Princeton featuring three and a half right-of-center thinkers: Daniel Larison, Virginia Postrel, Ross Douthat, and David Frum. I say three and a half because Postrel warmed my heart by beginning her comments with … Continue reading →

There’s an important link between my app store and network management posts from last week: they’re both examples of filtering processes that don’t scale. There’s a fundamental difference between an recommendation process, in which a variety of firms offer competing … Continue reading →

A couple of people left interesting comments in response to mypost about the problems with “app stores.” Here’s my former colleague Adam Thierer: There needs to be some sense of proportionality here, at least about the iPhone (I can’t speak … Continue reading →

Here’s one developer’s perspective on Apple’s treatment of developers, from this summer: The last session of WWDC ‘09 yesterday was about publishing on the App Store. The content of sessions is under NDA, so I can’t tell you what it … Continue reading →

A friend recently emailed me to suggest that this blog may feature longer-than-optimal posts: that when people see an 800-word post they tend to get intimidated and skip on to the next blog. This seems like a reasonable criticism, and … Continue reading →

Until recently, if you bought an iPhone (which I did) or a Pre, your only officially-permitted mechanism for getting applications onto your phones was the iTunes App Store or the Palm App Catalog, respectively. This is strange: most modern software … Continue reading →

My post last week about immigration as a civil rights issue generated a fair amount of discussion. There were a number of critical comments here and at Will Wilkinson’s blog. One objection was to my use of the term “civil … Continue reading →

In my Cato paper on network neutrality, I criticized Penn law professor Chris Yoo’s claim that network providers need to “exercise editorial control” over their networks. I see that Yoo has now expanded this claim into a whole paper, and … Continue reading →

Last week I critiqued Tim Wu’s Slate piece on the GBS deal. One of Wu’s key arguments was that other companies are unlikely to scan orphan works because there just isn’t that much money in them. Jerry Brito points out … Continue reading →