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Rather Than Considering Information 'Property,' What About
Looking At Productive vs. Destructive Uses?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100324/1059308695.shtml
Is Intellectual Property A Violation Of Real Property?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091116/1339346953.shtml
Modern Day Protectionism
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| The consumer entertainment industry
| lobbyists lie. They lie over, and over, and
| over. They lie to the media, they lie to the
| politicians, they lie to you. The lies in
| question are rarely looked upon critically
| by the media or the politicians, only by
| grassroots opposition. The main lies
| involved are all variations on the same
| theme; copying equals theft. That is to say,
| if you copy a piece of data â be it a
| software program, a song, a movie, a book,
| that makes you a thief. You're depriving the
| producer of that work of money which they
| supposedly have a right to.
|
| I don't know, maybe I wasn't "educated" well
| enough in government schools, but no matter
| how I twist and turn my logic, I still fail
| to see how this even remotely makes sense.
| If I walk into a store and leave with a
| jacket for which I have not paid then I have
| deprived the store's owner of his or her
| justly acquired, tangible property. They
| have one less jacket. They are directly
| harmed by my action.
|
| [...]
|
| For an extended discourse and refutation of
| the other ones, as well as a more in-depth
| take on copyright, I recommend to the reader
| Stephan Kinsella's brilliant essay Against
| Intellectual Property.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/krehic1.1.1.html
What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong?
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| But, of course, patents are designed to make
| that sort of thing more difficult, because
| it assumes that the initial act of invention
| is the key point, rather than all the
| incremental innovations built on top of it
| that all parties can benefit from. In fact,
| the report points to numerous studies that
| show, when given the chance, many companies
| freely share their ideas with others,
| recognizing the direct benefit they get.
| This flies in the face of (unsubstantiated)
| claims by patent system supporters that the
| patent system is needed to disclose and
| share inventions. In fact, the evidence
| suggests that in many cases, firms will
| willingly share that information anyway (for
| a variety of reasons detailed in the report)
| without requiring the "prize" of a monopoly
| right to do so.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100107/0517167656.shtml
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1502864
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