Events

While the popularity of streaming services is continuing to rise, the music licensing regime is becoming increasingly outdated and harmful to industry participants and consumers. In an attempt to address these problems, Congress is considering four major pieces of licensing reform legislation-the largest such package in many years. TPI’s music licensing conference will discuss current...

On Thursday, February 22, 2018, the Technology Policy Institute hosted an all-day conference featuring nine new research papers on the economics and policy implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Terminator or the Jetsons? The Economics and Policy Implications of Artificial Intelligence” will cover a wide range of topics in depth, including prediction versus judgment...

Antitrust has, almost overnight, become the subject of an intense policy debate, driven by the growth of populist sentiment combined with the emergence of economically and politically powerful companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. One side argues that standard economics-based antitrust enforcement has allowed these companies to amass too much economic and political...