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New Anti-SOPA Song & Crowdsourced Video From Dan Bull

by Stephan Kinsella December 20, 2011

I noted previously a brilliant music video, “Death of ACTA,” by Dan Bull. (More on ACTA, which has unfortunately now been signed by several countries.) Now he’s back with a new one, in a very creative attempt to fight the evil Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. As Mike Masnick notes in this Techdirt post [...]

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Canadian Copyright Horror: Criminalizing Bypassing Digital Locks; Forcing Students to Destroy Notes [C-11]

by Stephan Kinsella December 16, 2011

Skip Oliva sent me the following note about a chilling, censorious new copyright provision being debated in the Canadian parliament: I’ve been reviewing C-11, a bill before the Canadian parliament to “modernize” the country’s copyright laws. The Conservative government is trying to push the bill through with minimal debate. The attention-grabber is the bill makes [...]

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Rights Violations in the Name of Private Property

by Jeffrey Tucker December 9, 2011

[This article is based on a speech I gave at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, December 5, 2011.] You know that anti-piracy video you sometimes see at the beginning of movies? It explains how you wouldn’t steal a handbag, so neither should you steal a song or movie by an illegal download. Well, it turns [...]

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Carrier IQ’s attempt to employ copyright censorship backfires

by Stephan Kinsella December 7, 2011

As discussed in the Techcrunch post Android Researcher Hit With C&D After Dissecting Monitoring Software, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted about the mobile tracking software from a company called Carrier IQ. As explained in the Techcrunch post: Carrier IQ pitches themselves as the “leading provider of mobile service intelligence solutions,” and provides their services [...]

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Thoughts on Tabarrok’s Launching the Innovation Revolution

by Jacob Huebert December 6, 2011

After reviews by Bryan Caplan and our own Stephan Kinsella got my attention, I read Alexander Tabarrok’s new “TED” e-book, Launching the Innovation Revolution. I went in with an open mind, ready to applaud practical suggestions for incrementally increasing freedom in the area of intellectual property, even if Tabarrok didn’t endorse abolishing the entire patent [...]

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Mimi & Eunice: Legal Fictions

by Nina Paley December 3, 2011

Stupid, right? But I hear this argument for copyright law all the time. . . . → Read More: Legal Fictions

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But what about the authors’ IP rights?

by Jeffrey Tucker December 1, 2011

British Library digitizes 300 years worth of newspaper archives, brings 65 million articles online

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