Tim Wu

Professor of Law at Columbia University

Tim Wu appears in the following:

Monopolies, Tech, and 'The Curse of Bigness'

Friday, December 14, 2018

In his new book, technology law expert Tim Wu argues the biggest companies, like Facebook and Google, are dangerously large,  and that's bad for business and democracy.

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Is Facebook Too Big? Amid Repeat Offenses, Global Regulators Suggest Breaking Up the Social Media Giant

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg was noticeably absent from a meeting in the UK on Tuesday, where regulators from nine countries demanded answers.

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Rhiannon Giddens, 'The Favourite,' 'The Curse of Bigness'

Monday, November 19, 2018

Rhiannon Giddens on her musical career. Yorgos Lanthimos on “The Favourite.” Tim Wu on "The Curse of Bigness."

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Is the 1st Amendment Obsolete?

Friday, September 07, 2018

Online mobs, propaganda and the war on the press have subverted our understanding of freedom of speech. 

What Comes Next in the Fight for Net Neutrality

Monday, December 18, 2017

States like New York could play a new role in regulating the Internet.

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How Corporations Capitalize on Our Attention

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu examines the big business of capturing and trading our attention. 

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Blurring the Copyright Lines

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The Gaye family lawyers discuss the "Blurred Lines" copyright infringement case while Tim Wu argues the verdict should be thrown out.

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Web Utopias & Dial Up Dead Zones: The Fight for Net Neutrality

Monday, February 23, 2015

Should all internet traffic be treated equally? That's the question before the Federal Communications Commission this week.

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The Wild Wild Net: The FCC Wants to Regulate the Internet

Friday, February 20, 2015

The FCC plans to vote soon on whether it should regulate the Internet as a public utility. Net neutrality advocate Tim Wu discusses the latest on the FCC's proposal.

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Obama and the Future of the Internet

Friday, November 14, 2014

The president is siding with Silicon Valley and angering cable operators with his plan for preventing preferential Internet pricing and eliminating fast and slow lanes online.

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Meet the Candidates: Democrats for Lieutenant Governor

Monday, September 08, 2014

The candidates for Lt. Governor—Kathy Hochul for Governor Andrew Cuomo and Tim Wu with Zephyr Teachout—have separate lines on tomorrow's ballot, and joined us to discuss their campaigns.

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Meet the Progressive Challenge to Gov. Cuomo

Monday, June 23, 2014

Zephyr Teachout sees a broken system full of broken promises. But she thinks she can fix it, which is why she's running in the September primary.

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Explaining The Compromise On Net Neutrality

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I was in the FCC and I said why don't we extend this to wireless and they said that's great, but AT&T would never agree to it. And I said, 'well, AT&T doesn't have a vote on this comm...

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Compromise on Net Neutrality

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Tim Wu, a policy advocate and professor at Columbia Law School, discusses yesterday's FCC compromise vote on net neutrality. His recent book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires examines how new media revolutions are always proceeded by centralized corporate control over the new mediums.

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The Master Switch

Friday, November 12, 2010

Tim Wu discusses the history of the information industry in America, and looks at whether the Internet will be taken over and privatized as radio and television has before it. In The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information, he tells stories of the power over information, and wonders if the Internet—and the entire flow of American information—will come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan.

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Tim Wu on the Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

It's a debate that's been around for as long as the Internet has been around: How do we keep the information superhighway open and beneficial for the public in a world that seems increasingly driven by corporations? The question has inspired plenty of debate about modern treatment of older principals, but author Tim Wu insists this debate isn’t new. He says it’s been around as long as communication structures have existed — from the telephone and radio to television.

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Excerpt: 'The Master Switch'

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

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Chapter 1

Exactly forty years before Bell's National Geographic banquet, Alexander Bell was in his laboratory in the attic of a machine shop in Boston, trying once more to coax a voice out of a wire. His efforts had proved mostly futile, and the Bell Company was little more than a typically hopeless start-up.

Bell was a professor and an amateur inventor, with little taste for business: his expertise and his day job was teaching the deaf. His main investor and the president of the Bell Company was Gardiner Green Hubbard, a patent attorney and prominent critic of the telegraph monopoly Western Union. It is Hubbard who was responsible for Bell's most valuable asset: its telephone patent, filed even before Bell had a working prototype. Besides Hubbard, the company had one employee, Bell's assistant, Thomas Watson. That was it.

If the banquet revealed Bell on the cusp of monopoly, here is the opposite extreme from which it began: a stirring image of Bell and Watson toiling in their small attic laboratory. It is here that the Cycle begins: in a lonely room where one or two men are trying to solve a concrete problem. So many revolutionary innovations start small, with outsiders, amateurs, and idealists in attics or garages. This motif of Bell and Watson alone will reappear throughout this account, at the origins of radio, television, the personal computer, cable, and companies like Google and Apple. The importance of these moments makes it critical to understand the stories of lone inventors.

 

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The FCC Takes On Wireless Carriers

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Earlier this week, President Obama’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission may have picked his first big fight. And it wasn’t over a Janet Jackson-eque nipple-slip or a fl...

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Olympic Politics

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Tim Wu, Professor at Columbia Law School and Co-author of Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, discusses China’s backflip on a promise to allow full internet access to foreign reporters during the Olympics. Plus, Alan Tomlinson, Professor of Leisure Studies at University of Brighton, discusses ...

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