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Copyright  
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Broadband & Net Neutrality  
Patents  
Spectrum & Wireless  
Universal Service  
Privacy & Security  
International  

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Our new digital economy, Washington Times, Jan. 13, 2008  
Google the Destroyer, TCSDaily, Jan. 07, 2008  

The World Is Round: How To Think About Foreign Investment in the US, TCSDaily, Nov. 21, 2007

A Chill Wind For Innovation: European Court’s Ruling Imperils High-Tech Economy, Washington Legal Foundation, Oct. 19, 2007
 
SPEAKERS BUREAU

 

Scholars of the Convergence Law Institute are available to speak or testify at event in the Washington, D.C. area, around the United States, or abroad.

Available speakers include:

Ray L. Gifford serves as President of CLI.
http://www.ksrlaw.com/AttorneyPage.aspx?id=Gifford

He is available to speak or testify on the following topics:

• Energy policy.
• Regulatory reform and competition.
• Broadband and Net Neutrality.
• Intellectual property and innovation.


• Communications policy, including universal service.
• Equity and capital.

Ray Gifford can be reached at rgifford@ksrlaw.com

Recent talks include:

Edison Electric Institute Wall Street Dialogue, Houston, TX June 2007
Gridwise Department of Energy Forum November 2006
The Liberty Fund Intellectual Property Conference October 2006
NARUC Telecommunications Committee August 2006
Brazilian Intellectual Property Association, Sao Paulo, Brazil April 2006
ESEADE (Argentina) Intellectual Property Conference, B.A., Arg. April 2006
Indiana Legislature Joint Committee on regulatory reform October 2005
Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL September 2005, 2006
DACA Regulatory Framework Workshop June 2005
Federal Communications Bar Association Debate May 2005
Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics 2004-
DC-Maryland Public Utility Association April 2005 (keynote)
House Judiciary IP Subcommittee April 2005
Centre for New Europe. Brussels, Belgium February 2005
Istituto Bruno Leoni, Milan, Italy February 2005

For a complete list go here: [PDF]

James V. DeLongJames V. DeLong, Vice President & Senior Analyst,
http://www.convergencelaw.com/aboutus/JVDresume.shtml

is available to speak or testify on the following topics:

• Intellectual Property
Protecting creativity in the P2P age
Patent system and its improvement
Proprietary and open source software

• Innovation & Industrial Structure
Standard setting
Financial regulation
Telecommunications
• Competition policy
• International (Asia)
• Energy
• Administrative Law

Jim Delong can be reached at jdelong@ksrlaw.com

 

James V. DeLongSolveig Singleton, Adjunct, is available to speak on the following topics:
http://www.convergencelaw.com/aboutus/SSresume.shtml

• Copyright, especially as property or regulation.
• Consumers & IP, including DRM.
• Intellectual Property and development.
• Privacy online and offline.
• The first amendment and free speech.
• Women and Technology.


Solveig Singleton can be reached at solveigsingleton@gmail.com

Recent talks include:

"Virtual Worlds and Legal Realities," at Vanderbilt Law School', November 2007.
"Licensing and the Commons as Copyright Alternatives," at the University of Maryland, May 2007.
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act," at the Cato Institute, April 2006.
“On Grokster,” TTI Vanguard, Miami, Florida, July 2005.
“The Tempting of Switzerland: Financial Privacy and Capital Markets,” The Financial Center, Berne, Switzerland, November 2002.
“Reflections on Civil Liberties After 9/11,” Institute for Humane Studies, Arlington, Virginia, July 2002.
“Structuralists, Libertarians, and Pragmatists Consider Intellectual Property,” Microsoft’s Government Affairs Leadership Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 2002.


 
 
See also ... ... a CLI project on Intellectual Property

About Convergence Law Institute

The Convergence Law Institute, LLC (CLI) is a consulting firm that helps its clients develop and present strategies and arguments on current public policy issues.

CLI’s work is based on the principles that the institutions of property rights and markets are essential to continued economic and technological development, in the U.S. and world-wide. We seek clients whose business strategies embrace these views. We have been described as "a private think tank."

The name "Convergence Law" comes from the reality that services that were once separate — voice, video, data, even the electric grid — are converging into streams of bits on public and private Internet-protocol based platforms.

As a result, familiar legal and policy categories that developed under earlier technologies are losing their coherence, with dramatic effect on the rules governing competition, intellectual property, telecommunications, media, and financial services. Both public and private organizations must rethink policies, rules, and institutional mechanisms.

CLI is affiliated with the Washington, DC, office of the law firm of Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP, which is based in Denver.