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(Hat tip Jules Jeffrey) [Mises; AM]

In this talk Larry Lessig explains how copyright law chokes creativity … but that copyright abolitionists are wrong and extremists. Hunh?

This is a wonderful article announcing the opening of the Mises Institute’s iTunes U: The Mises Institute is pleased to announce that the multimedia content on Mises.org — many thousands of hours of audio and video — is now available through iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes U carries lectures […]

From 2005: IP Trends Posted by Stephan Kinsella on April 5, 2005 03:37 PM A Swedish libertarian buddy, Johan Ridenfeldt, pointed me to this article (in Swedish), which describes libertarian (liberal) arguments against intellectual property, and also includes a review of the debate in Nyliberalen (The Neoliberal). He wrote, “I find this very positive. I’m […]

In a previous post, I noted the arbitrariness of copyright law in prohibiting editing a DVD to take out objectionable scenes, when presumably it would be legal to accomplish the same thing by other means–e.g., as I pointed out in a legal forum, by providing instructions to users to use to program a special DVD […]

From my comment on Jeff Tucker’s post, A Theory of Open: Jeff: “Mainly, I think, this comes from an exaggerated reliance on IP and a belief that it is the key to success.” MIchael: “Do IP advocates understand that the system may very well make it a better bet to produce patents than products? Why […]

A friend of mine is going to be a panelist at this event, World’s Fair Use Day, which is a free, all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. WFUD will take place at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on […]

From Mises blog and Against Monopoly. Archived comments below. There are various ways to explain what is wrong with IP. You can explain that IP requires a state, and legislation, which are both necessarily illegitimate. You can point out that there is no proof that IP increases innovation, much less adds “net value” to society. […]

It is clear to anyone who pays attention that IP is under assault–both institutionally, as digital copying, encryption, distributed information, the Internet, and the inherent impotence of IP policing make attempts to monopolize information patterns increasingly futile; and intellectually, as more and more people, especially libertarians–and especially younger libertarians–see the injustice of IP made manifest […]