The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. TELECOMMUNICATION

The House Commerce Committee starts a discussion on legislation that deals with the transition from analog to digital television, resulting in debate over subsidies for devices that would make digital signals playable on analog TVs. 

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox on how Congress should guide the transition to digital television. 

2. GLOBALIZATION

Movie executives express concern that a U.N. cultural commission’s global protectionism treaty could be used to block Hollywood films.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Neil Hrab on how the treaty creates trade barriers that could impede billions of dollars worth of cultural exports. 

3. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is invited to speak at a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. 

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Isaac Post heads up CSR Reconsidered, a discussion of how the Corporate Social Responsibility movement affects business interests.