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Planet Money: The Case Against Patents
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Planet Money: The Case Against Patents. April 29, 2015. Good episode of NPR’s Planet Money, Episode 551. The Cast Against Patents, featuring economists Michele Boldrin and David Levine, authors of. And The Case Against Patents. And members of the Advisory Board of C4SIF. Embedded below. From the shownotes:. Tesla, the electric car company, recently decided to, basically, give up its patents. Anybody who wants to is now free to steal the company’s ideas. Comments… add one. Open source, open access. Stepha...
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Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property
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Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property. March 1, 2012. Go to http:/ c4sif.org/aip/. Comments… add one. You must log in to post a comment. Log in now. Next post: There Are No Good Arguments for IP-Dawkins Redux. Previous post: Slate’s Farhad Manjoo: Use Crowdsourcing to Improve Patents and Kill Patent Trolls. These should be radically reformed or entirely abolished. Open source, open access. I noticed in a piece written by Leigh Beadon, the techdirt guys hold a similar position.
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Tucker on Spooner’s One Flaw
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Tucker on Spooner’s One Flaw. June 15, 2012. I love Lysander Spooner a great early anarcho-libertarian. But he was bad on IP. He thought that an individual’s “right of property, in ideas, is intrinsically the same as, and stands on identically the same grounds with his right of property in material things no distinction of principle, exists between the two cases.”. The great Benjamin Tucker, in his 1887 tribute/eulogy to Spooner, included in the recently released Laissez Faire Books version of. The Law o...
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What You Need to be Solid on IP
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What You Need to be Solid on IP. April 29, 2015. From a Facebook thread. In which I was pinged to explain how Rothbard erred on intellectual property–my comment, edited somewhat:. We stand upon the shoulders of giants. Rothbard was such a monumental figure and genius, and did so much for libertarian theory and to advance Misesian Austrian economics. Even so, there are some gaps in his framework, and a couple of missteps. I’d. Write a comment…. Comments… add one. Open source, open access. Stephan, you hav...
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Roderick Long: Bye-Bye for IP
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Roderick Long: Bye-Bye for IP. December 30, 2010. Here’s a nice early attack. On IP from Roderick Long. I bolded a part I especially like:. Another blast from the past, out of the same box: I believe this letter to the Durham-based. Was published, in some form at any rate. Don’t get me wrong. As a wild-eyed free-marketeer, I’m a fan of property rights in general probably more so than most people. And at one time my enthusiasm for property rights extended to intellectual property as well. And see my reply:.
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September 26, 2010. To support the Center’s work, please donate using the PayPal link below:. To donate with BITCOIN. These should be radically reformed or entirely abolished. We provide news commentary and analysis and scholarly resources from our unique pro-property, pro-market, pro-innovation perspective. The Center is the publisher of the online scholarly journal Libertarian Papers. Open source, open access. I noticed in a piece written by Leigh Beadon, the techdirt guys hold a similar position.
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The Economist on the American Patent System
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On the American Patent System. May 8, 2011. Below is a letter to the editor I just sent in to The Economist in response to a pro-patent piece. I doubt they will publish it, but here it is. Your May 5th piece on Patently Absurd. An Economic Review of the Patent System. Res L and Econ. Similar comments are echoed by other researchers. François Lévêque and Yann Ménière, for example, of the Ecole des mines de Paris, observed in 2004:. Innovation. As they write: it seems unlikely that patents today are an...
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Pro-IP “Anarchists” and anti-IP Patent Attorneys
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Pro-IP “Anarchists” and anti-IP Patent Attorneys. April 14, 2015. Two sets that you would think are exceedingly rare. Over the years I’ve noticed when someone falls into either group. My notes are not comprehensive, to be sure, but here is what I’ve gathered so far. As for the second category: I collected them previously here: Patent Lawyers Who Oppose Patent Law. Lysander Spooner ( Tucker on Spooner’s One Flaw. J Neil Schulman and L. Neil Smith ( Replies to Neil Schulman and Neil Smith re IP. I am not e...
