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Fetz: My Journey in the World of Copyrights 27 Aug 2013 | 03:59 am
From Joe Fetz’s blog: My Journey in the World of Copyrights The issue of Intellectual Property (IP) is a very contentious one in libertarian circles and indeed between differing political philosophi...
Of Dice And Men: IP, Open Source and Dungeons and Dragons 23 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
In this interesting interview on KERA Think, with the author of a new book on Dungeons and Dragons, the author observes that in the early years of D&D, the publisher was aggressive in suing fans who p...
Robbins on the Patent Monopoly 14 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am
The following passage on patents, by Lionel Robbins, was called to my attention by Jeff Tucker. This is from Robbins’s 1939 book The Economic Basis of Class Conflict and Other Essays in Political Econ...
Are Patents and Copyrights “Monopolies”? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:33 am
From my Mises blog post from 2009, with some updates: Are Patents “Monopolies”? JULY 13, 2009 by STEPHAN KINSELLA On occasion you get some defender of patents who is upset when we use the m-word to...
Techdirt: Copyright Lawyers vs Patent Lawyers Smackdown 13 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
What can one say…? Copyright Lawyers vs Patent Lawyers Smackdown: And The Winner Is… from the when’s-the-rematch? dept You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright...
Rozeff: Contents of Private E-Mails Are Private Property 10 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
Michael Rozeff has a provocative post on LRC about property rights in the content of email. Here’s the post: Contents of Private E-Mails Are Private Property Suppose that I own a safe and it is empt...
Freakonomics: Does Copyright Make Books Disappear? 10 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am
On the Freakonomics blog, Kaul Raustiala and Chris Sprigman (the latter mentioned here previously) discuss the phenomenon copyright suppression of some older works because of a combination of the orph...
Hayek’s Views on Intellectual Property 2 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
Some of Hayek’s views on patent and copyright have already been collected in previous blogposts (see below). Steve Horwitz just called to Jeff Tucker’s attention another provocative comment of Hayek’s...
Yaron Brook on the Appropriate Copyright Term 30 Jul 2013 | 03:01 am
Objectivist Yaron Brook on the Leonard Peikoff podcast answers a question about how long the duration of copyright should be. Well, I should say, he attempts to answer the question. No, he doesn’t eve...
More defenses of IP by the Federalist Society 29 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
Economists and legal scholars have long been skeptical of IP,1 and libertarians in recent decades have become even more skeptical; most nowadays are in favor of abolishing IP altogether.2 So it is pas...
