The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Sony is forced to withdraw dozens of CD titles from sale after its copyright protection software sparks security concerns.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox and Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews on how Hollywood and the recording industry can protect digital property without new legislation.
2. INTERNET
Search is now the #2 activity for web users after email.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on Google’s project to make the contents of the world’s great libraries available to online searches.
3. FINANCE
The Secretaries of Labor, the Treasury and Commerce warn of the threat to the nation’s pension system from a collapse of the federal government’s pension insurance program in an op-ed for The New York Times.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on why Congress should abolish the Federal Pension Guarantee Corporation.
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