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Mimi & Eunice: Patent

by Nina Paley August 1, 2010

This is a syndicated post, which originally appeared at Mimi and Eunice » IP. View original post.

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The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism

by Stephan Kinsella July 28, 2010

My article, “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” was published on Mises Daily today. Also published today on Mises Daily is a reprint of Wendy McElroy’s great, classic “Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s Periodical Liberty.” Updates: Amusing: on the “Christian Pipe Smokers” site (hunh?), one guy links to my article and says “This is [...]

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Intellectual Property: A Simple Example

by David J. Heinrich July 21, 2010

Patents are voicing an idea and then telling everyone else they can’t use that idea without licensing it. For example, I might find a better way to fish and then prevent anyone who saw me use that new technique from employing it themselves. The fact that I had a new idea doesn’t give me the [...]

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Gene Patent Absurdity

by Stephan Kinsella April 13, 2010

Those without any sound principles about rights and economics are totally confounded by the issue of gene patents. The author of “The absurdity of patenting genes,” in The Guardian, for example, first observes, “Patents are a sensible idea, because people are more likely to invest in innovation …”. But on the other hand, “patents also [...]

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Stop the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

by Stephan Kinsella April 11, 2010

I blogged a year ago about the “Secret intellectual property treaty [that] could profoundly change life on the Internet.” At the time, the text was still secret but it was believed that the treaty: “seeks to set forth standards for enforcing cases of alleged copyright and patent infringement.” Now, as Cory Doctorow notes in How [...]

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Drugs Without Patents: Profit and Cornucopia

by David J. Heinrich April 1, 2010

An argument that pharmaceutical companies can profit without patents, that patents and FDA regulations hinder progress, and that a truly free market creates incentives for wide and rapid distribution of drugs to those in need.

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