In 1920, H.G. Wells published The Outline of History — Wells’ take on the unfolding of human civilization that was especially harsh on religion and superstition. In response, Hilaire Belloc, a devout Roman Catholic, wrote a series of articles attacking The Outline of History which he compiled into 1926′s A Companion to Mr. Wells’s “Outline…
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Kevin Carson has a provocatively titled article — Intellectual Property Is Murder — looking at the likely impacts of data exclusivity requirements on drug applications in India that are a result of trade agreements with the European Union. “Data exclusivity” means that clinical trials conducted before marketing by the company that originally produced the drug…
So I’m probably one of four people in the world who cared, but last Fall promotional material started appearing for an XBox 360 game produced by SouthPeak Games called “Battle vs. Chess.” In fact, Official XBox Magazine actually published a review of the game in their Holiday 2010 issue, saying, The game’s core chess experience…
GoToHellMan recently published a hilarious parody of publisher complaints about piracy Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion, Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to…
Not sure where I ran across this anymore, but Brian Martin has posted the full text of his 1998 book Information Liberation online in both HTML and PDF format. This is hardcore information wants to be free stuff — what originally caught my attention was chapter 3, Against Intellectual Property, which argues for the abolition…
Pirates of the Amazon is/was an interesting experiment that quickly got a cease-and-desist letter from Amazon.com. For a day, however, the site hosted a Firefox extension that assisted the user in pirating works for sale at Amazon. As TorrentFreak put it, An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible…