Bartlett D. Cleland is a research fellow with the Institute for Policy Innovation.
Cleland represented IPI as a member of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force and contributed to its final report, released in January 2009. The Task Force was created in February 2008 at the request of 49 state attorneys general to identify effective tools and technologies to keep kids safe online.
He currently serves as private sector co-chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Telecommunications & Information Technology Task Force. Cleland also serves on the Internet Education Foundation Board of Directors, which involves working closely with the Internet Caucus and such projects as GetNetWise, a project to assist parents in understanding the Internet and how to protect children on-line.
Cleland began his professional career in the human resources field with Lee Hecht Harrison as a consultant for executive outplacement. He went to
In the Name of Safety They Rob Us of Our Liberties
Safety and security are important, but our constitutionally protected liberties and freedoms are even more important. The government should be able to protect both, but all indications are that it isn't.
Let's Play: Who's the Constitutionalist?
Of all constituencies, the Tea Party should instinctively understand what’s wrong with the Marketplace Fairness Act
Let's Play: Who's the Constitutionalist?
Of all constituencies, the Tea Party should instinctively understand what’s wrong with the Marketplace Fairness Act
New Ground: ALEC Conference Moves Forward on CDA, Considers Health IT, Data Privacy
ALEC wants to provide ideas of how legislators can act next, said task force private-sector Chairman Bartlett Cleland, IPI policy counsel. "It is critically important for the future of healthcare that state legislators start understanding what they can do and start to act, so we can drive down healthcare costs and get healthcare to more people."
If You Can't Beat Them, Sue Them,
So what happens when a whole country surrenders to the difficulty of commercializing patents and instead retreats to patent assertion as a means to shake down innovators? Look no further than France.
A Permanent Ban on Discriminatory Internet Taxes
IP and the Bieb
Understanding that many are truly ignorant of the bounds of copyright, content providers (and also copyright critics) can now move from punishment fixation and together seek increasingly better ways to educate the public, and focus on the increasingly important role that copyright plays in our economy.
Of Misleading Studies and Political Grandstanding
The New York Times and several U.S. senators, with GAO report in hand, seem to have a problem understanding the difference between marginal and effective tax rates. Should they be opining on tax reform?
Patent Pool Pollution
Patent pools by design were intended to save innovators time and money by establishing cross-licensing agreements for specific technologies, but patent pools can be abused.
Tax Competition and the Film Tax Credit
Tax policy is one way in which the states compete. Ideally, states would compete on the basis of overall low tax rates; however, in practice that has never been the case. Tax credits, which essentially mitigate the harm of high tax rates, are thus the most common tools states use to compete with each other in tax policy.
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