The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. INTERNET

Google’s new video service raises questions about copyright protection technology.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on similar challenges facing the ambitious Google Library project.

 

2. HEALTH & SAFETY

Avian flu continues to spread across Turkey.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Henry I. Miller, M.D. on the problems with containing an epidemic in the developing world.

 

3. BIOTECHNOLOGY

The European Commission rules that a ban by Greece on imports of genetically modified corn is not justified on health or safety grounds.

 

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko on the global debate over GM crops.

 

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