All Posts Tagged With: "IP"
The Many Monopolies
We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, not the corporate economy. And what would freed markets look like? Nothing like the controlled markets we have today. But how often do we hear mass unemployment, financial crisis, ecological catastrophe, and the economic status quo attributed to the voraciousness of “unfettered free [...]
24Aug2011 | Charles Johnson | 19 comments | ContinuedSlave Labor and Intellectual Property
If one favors property rights in tangible things, why would one not favor them in intangibles?
3Jun2011 | Sheldon Richman | 119 comments | ContinuedGovernment Has the Internet in its Sights
The Obama administration wants domestic and worldwide control of the Internet.
5Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 14 comments | ContinuedThe Patent System: End It, Don't Mend It
Freeman authors David Levine and Michele Boldrin call for an end to patents in this Christian Science Monitor article. A taste: [I]ntellectual property does not increase innovation and creation. Extending IP rights may modestly boost the incentive for innovation, but this positive effect is wiped away by the negative effect of creating monopolies. There is [...]
9Dec2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedBooks Vanishing from Kindles
David Pogue of the New York Times reports: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid — for thought they owned. But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about [...]
18Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedNovelist Gagged by Judge
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, two weeks ago issued a preliminary but indefinite injunction against publishing, distributing, or advertising of an “unauthorized sequel” to J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye titled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. The text of the preliminary injunction against Frederik Colting, writing as John [...]
15Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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