Scarcity can be defined as the ownership of something tangible which necessarily excludes others from using it. Thus, if I own a fork, I exclude others from using it, unless I either give it away or temporarily transfer availability of it to someone else, which in turn means I cannot at that point in...
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Filed under: regulation, intervention, non-scarcity, intellectual property, monopoly rights, IP, copyright, copyleft, creative commons, scarcity
From Against Monopoly : Tom Cruise May Face Legal Action Over Hitler Globe reports that the collector who bought the famous "Hitler's globe" may sue for use of a likeness of the globe in Cruise's recent film Valkyrie , "the thriller about a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler...
One of the hardest things to swallow for me is the concept that every single copyright infringement is somehow akin to theft. The copyright infringer usually expends his own resources and utilizes his own labor to produce a product that is similar or sometimes nearly identical (a copy) to an original...
TechRepublic has a list up of ten laws people could be violating right now as they sit in front of their computers and access the internet. Interestingly enough, half of the list pertains to intellectual property. The travesty that is the DMCA tops the list at number one: #1: Digital Millennium Copyright...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are claiming that their copyright on the religious handbooks they give out to their bishops have been violated by Wikimedia Foundation's Wikileaks that published pages of the aforementioned material online. In an article published by Wikinews, the news...
Wouldn't THAT be something? http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/rep-lawrence-le.html . http://boingboing.hexten.net/2008/02/18/draft-larry-lessig-f.html http://draftlessig.org/
Within my study of technical communication I rarely encounter economic and philosophic ideas. But every once in a while some come along, especially because the current topic in my lone rhetoric class is laissez faire capitalism. So here are a few I encountered today. Copyright laws, or intellectual property...
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Filed under: education, anarchism, adam smith, andrew carnegie, value, anarcho-capitalism, intellectual property, capitalism, ludwig von mises, copyright, labor theory of value, wealth, just wages, labor, schooling
Well, not likely but the threat was made recently in court by the RIAA. Their brief basically said that if you copy a legally purchased CD to your computer, it is illegal. Would they threaten to make a case out of it in court? Perhaps not now, but as the record industry becomes ever more desparate, it...