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Larry Downes

http://www.larrydownes.com/
Last activity: 14.12.2016
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New York Times Best-Selling Author, Technology, Strategy and the Law
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United States, California, Berkeley
Employees
11-50

Mentions in press and media 14

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Jul 31, 2016Understanding Hillary Clinton’s innovation planAndrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More posts by this contributor How Facebook gives...
Oct 29, 2012Keen On… The Election: Spectrum, Spectrum, Spectrum [TCTV]TechCrunch is launching CrunchGov, which offers a Congressional leaderboard on tech friendly legislators. But what about the race for the White House – should Silicon Valley be supporting Obama or Romney? There are few people who know their...
Feb 6, 2012Keen On… SOPA: Mob Rule or Direct Democracy? (TCTV)My own views about SOPA and the need to protect online intellectual property are well-known. But even I acknowledge that SOPA was a flawed bill that didn’t represent a viable solution to policing the Internet against intellectual property t...
Mar 12, 20115 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are UnconstitutionalThe most serious constitutional issues with the domain seizures arise because the Government does not provide any notice to the domain owners prior to seizing them. One moment, their normal site is up at their web address, the next moment, ...
Nov 30, 2010Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizure May Stretch The Law Past The Breaking PointWe had a bunch of questions concerning the legality of Homeland Security’s seizure of domain names via its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group. The whole thing seemed of extremely dubious legality. And it appears we’re not the...
Sep 1, 2010How The Patent Office Outsourced Its Job To Non-Expert JurorsI already wrote about Larry Downes blog post suggesting that Paul Allen’s patent lawsuits might actually be an attempt to expose problems with the patent system, but I wanted to discuss a different point Downes raised earlier in the post, i...
Aug 30, 2010Is Paul Allen's Patent Madness Really An Attempt To Show The Madness Of Patents?Last week, in writing about Paul Allen’s decision to sue (nearly) every big tech company south of Seattle (notably absent: Microsoft and Amazon), I had seen a few people suggest that maybe Allen was doing this to prove how ridiculous the pa...
Aug 5, 2010DMCA Exemption Process Highlights The Folly Of The DMCALast week, of course, we paid a fair bit of attention to the latest round of DMCA exemptions, which come along every three years. It was surprising that the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress seem to keep moving the bar (slowly, s...
Jul 2, 2010Reading The Bilski Tea Leaves For What The Supreme Court Thinks Of Software PatentsSince it’s been a week or so since the Bilski ruling, and as more people have had more time to look at and sift through the rulings in greater detail, some are realizing there may actually be a light at the end of the tunnel for those who d...
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What has the press written about Larry Downes?

Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning Larry Downes, among them “Understanding Hillary Clinton’s innovation plan” (Jul 31, 2016) and “Keen On… The Election: Spectrum, Spectrum, Spectrum [TCTV]” (Oct 29, 2012).

Is Larry Downes still active?

Yes, Larry Downes is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 14, 2016.