Timothy B. Lee
Adjunct Scholar
Timothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Lee helped found the Show-Me Institute, Missouri's free-market think tank, in 2005. Before that, he worked as a staff writer at the Cato Institute. He has written extensively about copyright and patent law, civil liberties, and network neutrality regulation. He has been cited as an intellectual property and technology expert by the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, and his writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch and numerous other papers. He contributes regularly to the Technology Liberation Front, a weblog featuring technology scholars from some of the nation's leading think tanks. He's also a regular contributor to Ars Technica, a popular technology news site. He holds a computer science degree from the University of Minnesota.
E-Mail: leex1008@umn.edu
Cato Studies
"Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," Policy Analysis no. 564, March 21, 2006.
Articles and Newsletters
"Save the Orphan (Works)," TechKnowledge, June 30, 2008.
"Beacon Lessons," TechKnowledge, February 8, 2008.
"Google Should Stick to What It Knows Best," TechKnowledge, July 6, 2007.
"Why Libertarians Should Celebrate Free Software," TechKnowledge, June 22, 2007.
"Wu on Wireless: A Simple Solution?," TechKnowledge, June 1, 2007.
Opinion and Commentary
"The Day the Music Dies," Reason, July 21, 2008
"The New FISA Compromise: It's Worse than You Think," Ars Technica, July 7, 2008
"Limits on Eavesdropping Need to Stay," by Timothy B. Lee and Gene Healy, Orange County Register, February 19, 2008
"Telecom Amnesty," Slate, February 13, 2008
"The Surveillance Scam," Reason (Online), February 7, 2008
Events
"Copyright Controversies: Freedom, Property, Content Creation, and the DMCA ," April 26, 2006 [Conference]
Multimedia
"Obama's FISA Flip Flop" featuring Timothy B. Lee, July 10, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:27]
"McCain's FISA Flip Flop" featuring Timothy B. Lee, June 13, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:33]
"Filesharing, Fair Use and Commerce" featuring Timothy B. Lee, June 11, 2008 [Flash Audio, 09:11]
"Mandating Network Neutrality" featuring Timothy B. Lee, May 20, 2008 [Flash Audio, 07:34]
"Patents in the Abstract" featuring Timothy B. Lee, May 7, 2008 [Flash Audio, 07:23]