2017-06-25 Against Intellectual Monopoly

Edward Morbius linked to Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (last blog posts from 2015)

=> Against Intellectual Monopoly | blog posts

I am reminded of me picking up Piracy by Adrian Johns back in 2014.

=> back in 2014

I want to read it all, but I don’t know when to do it. Something for this summer?

=> this summer

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I just heard the Thinking Allowed episode Rentier capitalism - Protest camps and they talked about The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work does not Pay by Guy Standing. He says that intellectual property is a form of rent and if 40% of your economy depends on it, no wonder that labor is not worth much. The review of the book in the Guardian provides some context.

=> review of the book

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We are terrible stewards of history. “Copyright plays a pretty large role in the destruction of our cultural history.” Truth!

=> We are terrible stewards of history

​#Copyright ​#Patents