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Our Communist Future

A nice write-up of post-IP business models.

I’m back from San Diego, and the Randstravaganza over at Cato Unbound has been continuing apace. (I contributed a few posts from the road, and some more since my return.) So here’s the latest (I’ve altered the order slightly to reflect what people seemed to be replying to rather than when the replies went up):

Doug
Mike
Neera
Me
Mike
Doug
Neera
Doug
Me
Neera
Doug
Mike
Doug
Will
Mike
Me
Doug
Me
Mike

I’ve just sent in a response to Mike’s latest, which will go up either today or tomorrow. The discussion will wrap up tomorrow.

Tags: Antiquity, Ethics, IP, Left-Libertarian, Online Texts, Personal, Praxeology, Rand

Bradbury Inadvertently Burns Own Book

Jan 03 by Roderick

Story here.

Tags: IP, Left-Libertarian, Science Fiction

Piracy on the Amazon

Dec 31 by Roderick | 3 comments

Eight months ago, Kevin Carson called for a hack of Amazon’s Kindle.

He got his wish this week, just in time for Christmas. (CHT Sheldon Richman.)

Tags: IP, Left and Right

Fugitive and Cloistered

by Roderick | 6 comments

detail from unicorn tapestry at the Cloisters

I’m back from New York, which was fun (though, toward the end, unusually cold). Our IP session went well, and later that day Charles and I had a good time being interviewed by Darian Worden, Tennyson McCalla, and Bile of Thinking Liberty, and hanging out with them afterward. I also went with friends to see the Cloisters, which was really beautiful.

I had excellent meals at Barney Greengrass and Pastis, a pretty good meal at Evergreen, and an absolutely dreadful meal at the Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion.

Now I need to start preparing for classes and my Phoenix trip.

In other news, Robert Wicks has a great post (CHT Manuel Lora) on the lessons to be drawn from the Case of the Underpants Bomber.

In still other news, you gotta love this euphemistic description: “a fatal shooting that involved officers” (I’ll leave it to you to guess the nature of the police officers’ “involvement.”)

Best wishes to all for a happy and stateless new year!

Tags: Anarchy, Ethics, IP, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS, Personal, Terror, The Thin Blue Line

Hark the Herald Angels

Dec 27 by Roderick | 7 comments

Greetings from New York! I can now announce the location of Tuesday’s 11:15 Molinari Symposium: it’s in the Herald meeting room (7th floor), New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway.

Tags: IP, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS

Steal This Blog!

Dec 26 by Roderick | 3 comments

My comments for the upcoming Molinari Society session in New York this coming week are now online.

I can’t remember if I ever posted that paper on Nozick and class conflict that I presented at the last Alabama Philosophical Society meeting, but if not, that’s online too.

Tags: Anarchy, Conflation Debate, Ethics, Industriels, IP, Labortarian, Left and Right, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS, Online Texts, Personal

I’m In an Infinitely Reproducible New York State of Mind

Dec 18 by Roderick | 1 comment

NYC

The papers for the Molinari Society’s upcoming IP symposium at the APA are now online. (For those planning to attend, I’ll announce the session location here as soon as I can wrest the information from the APA’s bony fingers at registration.)

I notice that the Ayn Rand Society session at the APA is also devoted to intellectual property. So hours of libertarian IP debate await us in New York! (Well, using “us” loosely; something else I’m committed to conflicts with the Randian meeting, so I will have to miss it. But, y’know, them us.)

Tags: Ethics, IP, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS, Online Texts, Personal, Rand

IP Query

Nov 11 by Roderick | 4 comments

anarchy vs. copyright

A question for IP experts: What is the legal status of falsely claiming copyright?

I often see reprints of works that are definitely in the public domain, stamped by their publishers with a current copyright (with no qualification as to what’s being copyrighted, e.g., no restriction to a new introduction or to new illustrations – and often there’s no such new material in any case).

Given that such copyright notices could be interpreted as implying a threat of force that is regarded as illegitimate even under current IP law, is there any law against what they’re doing? Are they vulnerable to any sort of cease-and-desist order? Or are false copyright notices just regarded as harmless speech until they make an effort to enforce them?

Tags: IP, Left-Libertarian