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Interview 1781 - Oxford Fights Climate Lockdowns - #NewWorldNextWeek

This week on the New World Next Week: Finland teaches its citizens about media literacy; Oxfordians are already pushing back against the 15-minute city idea; and Lukashenko abolishes copyright in Belarus (kinda sorta not really).
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Trump Signs $2.3-Trillion Covid-19 Bailout Bill That Also Squelches Free Speech

Tens of billions of dollars are earmarked for war, weapons and regime change abroad. Another disturbing element of the bill is that it makes the felony streaming bill and the CASE Act into law that rewrites our copyright laws to aid copyright extortion rackets that shake down incidental and accidental infringement.

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What is “intellectual property,” exactly? Where does this pernicious idea come from? And how does this philosophical wrong turn lead us not just into the heart of absurdity, but toward the censorship of the internet and the control of your genome? Find out in this jam-packed edition of The Corbett Report . . . and stay tuned for the worldwide debut of James Corbett’s blockbuster online protest song, “IP Freely (Screw YouTube)”!

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[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode360-lq.mp3"][/audio]What is "intellectual property," exactly? Where does this pernicious idea come from? And how does this philosophical wrong turn lead us not just into the heart of absurdity, but toward the censorship of the internet and the control of your genome? Find out in this jam-packed edition of The Corbett Report . . . and stay tuned for the worldwide debut of James Corbett's blockbuster online protest song, "IP Freely (Screw YouTube)"!

Glyn Moody on the EU Copyright Directive


Writer and journalist Glyn Moody joins us today to discuss his recent TechDirt article, “EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material.” We discuss the recently-passed EU copyright directive, including the imposition of upload filters, and the recently-leaked working paper on the EU Digital Services Act. We also remember some of the successes that protesters have had in the wake of internet-killing copyright legislation in the past.

Interview 1465 – Glyn Moody on the EU Copyright Directive

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-23%20Glyn%20Moody.mp3"][/audio]Writer and journalist Glyn Moody joins us today to discuss his recent TechDirt article, EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material. We discuss the recently-passed EU copyright directive, including the imposition of upload filters, and the recently-leaked working paper on the EU Digital Services Act.

Rentier Britain: All the Rent Goes to the 1%

There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent, second the creation of money by privately owned banks, and the third is rent-seeking that is used to juice profits out of intellectual property through copyright and patents.
But the political class, supported by lobbying, continues to avoid addressing these issues. So monopolies grow larger and larger, and as they do, more and more people are excluded from the economy.