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Tax Bytes: A Primer on the Taxation of Electronic Commerce, Cato Trade Policy Analysis No. 9

Electronic commerce conducted over the Internet has exploded over the past several years. In 1998 online shopping revenues in the United States alone totaled approximately $13 billion, and they are...
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The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation, Cato Policy Analysis No

An important reason for the Internet's remarkable growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle that networks should confine themselves to transmitting generic packets without ...
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Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture, Cato Policy Analysis No. 567

Excutive Summary It is commonly said that copyright matters because it encourages the production of socially beneficial, culturally significant expressive content. Excessive focus on copyrigh...
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Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Ca

Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed the Digital Millennium ...
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"Net Neutrality": Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Gamesmanship in Cyberspac

Executive Summary A heated dispute erupted in late 2002 between corporate giants in the high-tech sector over how the networks owned by cable and telecom companies will be governed in t...
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The Internet Tax Solution: Tax Competition, Not Tax Collusion, Cato Policy Analy

Executive Summary A heated debate is once again under way in Congress over the tax treatment of electronic commerce and the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1997. The ITFA imposed a moratorium ...
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The Constitutional Case against "Free" Airtime, Cato Policy Analysis No. 481

Executive Summary Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to revive his free airtime bill for the 108th Congress. The proposed law forces broadcasters to cover political campaigns and to subsi...
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Why Subsidize the Soapbox? The McCain Free Airtime Proposal and the Future of Br

Executive Summary Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to introduce a free airtime bill in the 108th Congress. The proposed law requires broadcasters to devote airtime to political campaign...
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Human Bar Code: Monitoring Biometric Technologies in a Free Society, Cato Policy

Executive Summary Biometric technologies such as voice prints, retina and iris scanners, face-recognition cameras, digitized fingerprints, and even implantable chips containing personal...
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Caught in the Seamless Web: Does the Internet's Global Reach Justify Less Freedo

Executive Summary A federal appellate court will decide this year whether French anti-discrimination law can restrict freedom of speech on U.S.-based websites that are accessible in Fra...
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Online Travel Services: The Antitrust Assault on Orbitz--and on Consumers, Cato

Executive Summary Orbitz, which sells airline tickets to travelers over the Internet, is owned by 5 major airlines and affiliated with 30 more. Its charter requires it to display flight...
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Why Canning "Spam" Is a Bad Idea, Cato Policy Analysis No. 408

Executive Summary Everyone hates getting "spam." But does every unsolicited commercial e-mail deserve that derogatory label? Unsolicited e-mail can be annoying, but addressing the issue...
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Open Access Private Interests and the Emerging Broadband Market, Cato Policy Ana

Executive Summary The debate over open access to new cable broadband networks marks the first significant entry of Internet service providers (ISPs) into the great game of using the regulatory p...
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Will the Net Turn Car Dealers into Dinosaurs? State Limits on Auto Sales Online,

Executive Summary Many states have automobile franchise laws that impede or prohibit newcomers from entering the business of selling cars within certain local markets. The laws protect licensed ...
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Internet Gambling: Popular, Inexorable, and (Eventually) Legal, Cato Policy Anal

Executive Summary The Internet offers new and better access to something that American consumers demand in spades: gambling. Lawmakers and prohibitionists can neither effectively stop Internet g...
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Electric Avenues: Why "Open Access" Can't Compete, Cato Policy Analysis No. 301

Executive Summary The regulation of electricity markets is changing rapidly. So far, the changes affect only the generation of electricity. The deregulation of transmission and distribution is n...
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