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
"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.
"Supreme Court Ruling Could Save Vonage," TechKnowledge, May 1, 2007.
Opinion and Commentary
"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
"Bulldozing the American Dream," The American, October 18, 2007
"Don't License This Argument—Buy It," American.com, August 22, 2007
Events
"Copyright Controversies: Freedom, Property, Content Creation, and the DMCA ," April 26, 2006 [Conference]
Multimedia
"Patents in the Abstract" featuring Timothy B. Lee, May 7, 2008 [Flash Audio, 07:23]
"Intelligence Continues to be Gathered" featuring Timothy B. Lee, February 18, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:13]
"Congress Punts on FISA Reform (Again)" featuring Timothy B. Lee, February 1, 2008 [Flash Audio, 09:42]
"Senate Punts on FISA Reform" featuring Timothy B. Lee, December 31, 2007 [Flash Audio, 06:55]
"Reining in Wiretapping" featuring Timothy B. Lee, October 22, 2007 [Flash Audio, 06:35]