The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. LEGAL
Congress considers the question of what can be done with copyrighted material whose owner cannot be found.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Former Technology Counsel Braden Cox on the solution to the legal problem of so-called “orphan works.”
2. HEALTH
A new report by the National Association of Attorneys General claims that the sales of cigarettes in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level in 55 years.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Communications Christine Hall on how state attorneys general have overstepped their bounds in the tobacco wars.
3. BUSINESS
The cross-examination of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow continues.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why we learned the wrong lessons from the Enron bankruptcy.
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