Think twice before investing a bunch of money in a custom super-hero car like the Batmobile to your right. US copyright law being what it is, you might be in for a legal battle. Jamie Frevele explains: A judge in California has ruled that custom Batmobiles, like the ones made by Gotham Garage owner Mark Towles [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 13, 2012
If you’re one of seven-hundred lucky households in Sebastopol, California your internet is about to become much faster. Telecom start-up Sonic.net is rolling out fiber lines to a small group of California residents in its initial foray into 1Gbps internet. That’s fast. In 2010, the median internet speed in the United States was a paltry 3 [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 11, 2012
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) showed up at in to issue a stark warning: we’re running out of time to stop legislation aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement. That legislation – the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate – is intended to [...]
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Opponents of online censorship have introduced a bipartisan alternative to legislation that threatens to break the internet. The OPEN Act is far from perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. Eric Goldman has a really smart, detailed breakdown of the OPEN Act – an alternative to the purely noxious SOPA/PIPA legislation currently crawling [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 28, 2011
Writing in The New York Times, Layna Mosley argues that free trade, in and of itself, has the power to raise labor standards across the globe thanks to the “California effect:” International trade gives producers incentives to meet the standards of their export markets. When developing nations export more to countries with better labor standards, [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 7, 2011
Despite promises to the contrary on the campaign trail, the Obama administration has announced an escalation in its war on legal medical marijuana dispensaries in California and elsewhere. Federal prosecutors have sent letters to landlords and owners of dispensaries across California warning them to halt sales of marijuana within 45 days or face property seizures and [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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