intellectual property

Tabarrok’s Launching the Innovation Renaissance: Statism, not renaissance

by Stephan Kinsella December 2, 2011

As noted on Marginal Revolution, in Launching the Innovation Renaissance, erstwhile quasi-Austro-libertarian fellow traveler Alex Tabarrok has a new book out in the intriguing TED Books imprint, entitled Launching the Innovation Renaissance (Amzn link, B&N for Nook, also iTunes). The description of the book says: How can we increase innovation? I look at patents, prizes, [...]

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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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Mimi & Eunice: Commerce is Bad

by Nina Paley November 15, 2011

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Mimi & Eunice: Copy Animals

by Nina Paley November 13, 2011

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A New Approach to Commercial Publishing: The New LFB

by Jeffrey Tucker November 11, 2011

Laissez-Faire Books was founded in 1972 when issues of intellectual property hadn’t been worked out in detail in the libertarian world. There was of course the Randian view, which took IP to the most absurd extremes. Then there was the Rothbardian view, which had a very strict view of what is and what is not [...]

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James Bond, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 10, 2011

So it looks like a recently published spy thriller, Assassin of Secrets, was largely plagiarized by the “author” from quite a few other novels — some post-Fleming Bond novels and others. Now, when someone like myself says he is against intellectual “property,” as an illegitimate government grant of monopoly privilege over something that cannot be [...]

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Mimi & Eunice: Patented Emotions

by Nina Paley October 22, 2011

Update: Meir alerts us it’s been translated into Hebrew:

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