Adam Thierer

Amicus brief of the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Progress and Freedom Foundation filed in the Supreme Court case of Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations. This is the so-called "fleeting expletives" case that went through the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Fox won and the FCC appealed the case to the Supreme Court. It has profound First Amendment implicatio...

joint comments to Federal Communications Commission filed by many diverse public interest groups that are opposed to a content filtering mandate that would be part of future AWS-3 auction

"A Primer On the US Mobile Television Market" by Joseph S. Kraemer, Ph. D.

Progress Snapshot Release 4.15 July 2008 Dear Gov. Patterson… Regarding that Video Game Bill You Are About to Sign Progress Snapshot Release 4.15 July 2008 by Adam Thierer * To: From: Date: Re: Hon. David Patterson, Governor, State of New York Adam Thierer, life-long gamer and Senior Fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation July 17, 2008 That video game bill (A. 11717/ S. 6401) you have b...

This special report from the Progress & Freedom Foundation -- "Media Metrics: The True State of the Modern Media Marketplace" -- provides an objective snapshot of the health of America's media landscape. It examines the issue both from the perspective of consumer welfare and the health of various media industry sectors. This is version 1.0 of the report. Occasional updates will be made availab...

Telecommunications & Electronic Media A La Carte Regulation of Pay TV: Good Intentions vs. Good Economics By Jeffrey Eisenach & Adam Thierer* n his insightful works on political economy, Professor Thomas Sowell warns of the dangers of lawmakers allowing good intentions to trump good economics when crafting public policy. It is a theme which Friedrich Hayek,1 Milton Friedman2 and others articulat...

Progress Snapshot Release 4.14 July 2008 Still 'Dirty' After All These Years Progress Snapshot Release 4.14 July 2008 by Adam Thierer and John Morris * Thirty years ago this week, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark First Amendment decision, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. Spurred by a Pacifica Foundation radio station airing George Carlin’s infamous “seven dirty words” monologue, a splint...

Progress Snapshot Release 4.12 June 2008 What's Worse Than Rigged Auctions & Internet Censorship? How About Both in One Package! Progress Snapshot Release 4.12 June 2008 by Adam Thierer and Berin Szoka * The big spectrum policy debate in town these days continues to be the fight about how to redo the botched D block auction. As we all know, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's previous effort to micro...

Progress Snapshot Release 4.11 May 2008 Where is the FCC’s Annual Video Competition Report? Progress Snapshot Release 4.11 May 2008 by Barbara Esbin and Adam Thierer * The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is required by law—the 1992 Cable Act, to be exact—to produce an “Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming,” otherwise known ...

Progress on Point Release 12.27 December 2005 Periodic Commentaries on the Policy Debate The Future of Radio Regulation: The Need for a Level Playing Field By Adam Thierer * Introduction Though it has long been considered a mature industry, radio is currently in the midst of major structural and technological changes. 1 For the past seven decades, the industry has been relatively stable in a t...