If free market anarchists are against IP laws than why does the LMV institute place copyrights on online books?
It took a while for libertarians to catch on to the anti-IP movement, so if you are talking about old books that is why. If you are talking about recent work using CC 3.0 share-alike licensing, this explains.
Often we opponents of socialistic, legislatively-created, utilitarian-based, property-redistributing, artificial, arbitrary, inconsistent, irrational, innovation-hampering, monopolistic, anti-competitive, and wealth-destroying intellectual property laws are accused of hypocrisy when we “copyright” our articles and books. I’ve pointed out to such people innumerable times, to little avail, that copyright is a noun, not a verb–that you don’t “copyright” something–you have a copyright in your original works of authorship as soon as you write them, automatically, courtesy of federal law. No copyright notice is required. No copyright registration is required. You have the right, whether you like it or not.
Often we opponents of socialistic, legislatively-created, utilitarian-based, property-redistributing, artificial, arbitrary, inconsistent, irrational, innovation-hampering, monopolistic, anti-competitive, and wealth-destroying intellectual property laws are accused of hypocrisy when we “copyright” our articles and books.
I’ve pointed out to such people innumerable times, to little avail, that copyright is a noun, not a verb–that you don’t “copyright” something–you have a copyright in your original works of authorship as soon as you write them, automatically, courtesy of federal law. No copyright notice is required. No copyright registration is required. You have the right, whether you like it or not.
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Maybe in some cases, but I think a lot of them are just because the book was printed a long time ago when the theory against IP hadn't developed.
So, if (hypothetically) someone were to, say, download all the PDFs of LVMI books, print out a bunch of copies, bind them cheaply, and sell them for cost plus the going rate of profit, would/could anything happen to them?
They would have lots of books! They would probably get outcompeted by LvMI, though I think there could be a market for very high quality, letterpressed versions of things like Human Action.
So LMV places copyrights on books and whatnot bec. they do not want others to be able to place copyrights on their work? But they are much less concerned with people printing off their copyrighted works (and possibly selling them for profits)?
Reading comprehension FTW!
Yes, jaredsmith, they have to copyright (and place the documents in the creative commons, which allows anyone to use and distribute the works) in order to prevent someone from claiming the works and putting them in a dark vault somewhere; taking them out only when bashing others with royalty requests.