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An Objectivist Recants on IP
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| To cut a long thing short, the moment I
| realised that there is a conflict between
| rights to intellectual property and rights
| to physical property, I also realised that
| something is wrong about the whole thing.
| Such a contradiction usually means that
| something is wrong with the premises of
| the person facing the contradiction - me.
|
| Restricting a person from giving physical
| shape to an idea he has in his mind is
| clearly a violation of his Liberty and
| Property Rights. However, this is
| precisely what implementation of IP means.
| IP proponents typically tent to retort
| saying that what I am calling "violation
| of Liberty and Property Rights" is
| actually implementation of the property
| rights of the owner of the idea/pattern
| that is the subject of the IP.
|
| If it is true that in the name of
| protecting Intellectual Property Rights,
| one is actually violating the Liberty of
| some individuals, in effect one is also
| saying that the holders of Intellectual
| Property have an undefined lien on the
| Liberty of the individuals of the other
| part. Translated, this gives some
| individuals the right to enslave others by
| virtue of being holders of Intellectual
| Property rights. This made the notion all
| the more bizarre to me. It was in direct
| contradiction of the most basic principles
| of Objectivism that no man may claim the
| right to initiate force against another.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001957
RIM faces U.S. trade complaint over BlackBerry
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| Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the
| BlackBerry phone, is facing a patent-
| infringement complaint with a U.S. trade
| agency that may result in the devices
| being banned from the U.
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http://www.cbc.ca/fp/story/2009/12/03/2298623.html
Microsoft talks about algorithms as mathematics?
Mathematical Notation Gets an Upgrade
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| For 70 years, mathematicians have been
| stuck on the Halting Problem: Computers
| occasionally hang on one line of code and
| fail to move on to the next, and no one
| can reliably predict when that will
| happen. (The result is the unending
| hourglass or pinwheel of death.) But a few
| years ago, Microsoft researcher Byron Cook
| and his colleagues did the unthinkable â
| they hacked a fix. When Cook tried to
| describe the workaround, however, he found
| it impossible to explain with existing
| mathematical symbols.
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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/st_goodsigns
Virgin Media smites TV software patents
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/virgin_epg_victory/
(Partial) Political Breakthrough: Conclusions On An Enhanced Patent System In Europe
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| Today was the final day of the 2982nd
| Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry
| and Research) EU Council meeting and, as
| expected, some important political signal
| was sent out.
|
| In particular, the EU Council has agreed
| on a number of conclusions on the main
| features of the European and EU Patents
| Court. On the EU patent they should form
| part of the overall final agreement on a
| package of measures for an Enhanced Patent
| System in Europe comprising the creation
| of a European and EU Patents Court
| (EEUPC), an EU patent, including the
| separate regulation on certain special
| translation arrangements, an Enhanced
| Partnership between the European Patent
| Office and central industrial property
| offices of Member States and, to the
| extent necessary, amendments to the
| European Patent Convention (EPC).
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/134-Partial-Political-Breakthrough-Conclusions-On-An-Enhanced-Patent-System-In-Europe.html
Recent:
Cox [patent maximalist] is favourite to replace McCreevy in EU Commission
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| The former President of the European Parliament Pat Cox has emerged as the
| new favourite to replace Charlie McCreevy as EU Commissioner this autumn.
|
| Mr Cox is probably the only Irish figure that could command an influential
| portfolio  and appointing him would avoid a by-election that the government
| couldn't win.
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http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cox-is-favourite-to--replace-mccreevy-in-eu-commission-1739888.html
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