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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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Patent Lawyers Who Oppose Patent Law
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Patent Lawyers Who Oppose Patent Law. February 3, 2011. The ones who are known are few and far between. Here are the ones I have noted so far:. My friend R. Anthony Diehl, registered patent attorney, is opposed to it, and knows what a state boondoggle it is;. Law professor Michael Davis. Also a registered patent attorney, opposes the patent system (for leftist reasons, I believe, unlike my own. Property, libertarian reasons but still; see The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents. See: Patent Lawye...
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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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Tabarrok: Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin
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Tabarrok: Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin. September 20, 2012. In a recent post, Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin. Alexander Tabarrok makes a Laffer-curve style “argument” that patent rights are currently “too strong.” Of course, he is correct that patent rights are too strong. But there are so many problems with his position. Here Tabarrok is implicitly adopting a wealth-maximization/utilitarian approach to policy. There are several problems with this, as I detailed in. In which I mentioned &...
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Boldrin and Levine: The Case Against Patents
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Boldrin and Levine: The Case Against Patents. September 5, 2012. Here are the first few lines from the Introduction to The Case Against Patents. A draft paper by Michele Boldrin and David Levine, authors of. We can only conclude, at this point, that people who favor patents on “utilitarian” grounds are either ignorant or dishonest. They are much like the leftists in Sowell’s. Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Or those derided by Charles Murray in. Log in to reply.
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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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