Swedish Pirate Bureau founder's essay on copyright for Cato
Jason sez, "Rasmus Fleischer is a co-founder of The Piracy Bureau, a Swedish group critical of copyright, and the parent organization of BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.
This month he has a new essay up at Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute's online magazine of ideas. In it, he argues that attempts to impose 20th-century copyright standards on digital media are doomed to failure -- indeed, they're failing already, and threats to privacy and civil liberties are growing: "
Every broken regulation brings a cry for at least one new regulation even more sweepingly worded than the last. Copyright law in the 21st century tends to be less concerned about concrete cases of infringement, and more about criminalizing entire technologies because of their potential uses. This development... will have seriously chilling effects on innovation, as the legal status of new technologies will always be uncertain under ever more invasive rules.Link (Thanks, Jason!)
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I am putting together a compendium of articles on this subject (to be paired with artists' work around anti-copyright and related issues.) This is a great article for that - does anybody have other suggestions?
A book I wrote a couple years ago: "Bounty Hunters: Metaphors for Fair IP Law".
* Against Intellectual Property Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies* Against Intellectual Property by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
* Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan
* Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity by Michael Perelman
* Free culture, P2P networks, alternative economic models, and why some people do not want freedom by Jorge Cortell
* Chilling Effects
* The Economics of Open Content Symposium
* The Rise of Crowdsourcing
* Without IP who will invent? How about everybody.
* Intellectual Property: The New Backlash by Peter Klein
* Better Than Free by Kevin Kelly
* Is Copyright Dead on the Net? by Lance Rose
* Can I Get an Amen? by Nate Harrison
* iwouldntsteal.net
* Good Copy Bad Copy (GCBC)
* Steal This Film Parts 1 & 2
* No Such Thing as a Free Patent by Stephen Kinsella
* Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
* Right to Create: Broken Windows, Broken Patents
* Report: Patent Law Stifles Drug Innovation
* Why We Hate Gene Patents by Barbara A. Caulfield
* The Danger of Software Patents by Richard M. Stallman
* Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by Richard Stallman
* Democratizing Innovation and The Sources of Innovation by Eric von Hippel
* Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
* Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Larry Lessig
* Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software edited by Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam and Karim R. Lakhani
* Wikipedia: Movement Against Intellectual Property
Stephen Kinsella also has a collection of anti-IP links and articles here.
Jorge Cortell has a weblog.
Also, check out dominant assurance contracts.
Wow! Thank you all! I'll be sure to let BB know when the compendium is finished.
I also wrote a paper that explains the main differences between the various Free, Libre, and Open Source licenses.
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The compendium is definitely ready! LOL
Regarding copyright, here's another article by Andrew Keen where he talks about Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch) and his position against current copyright laws. Keen: "Arrington’s position certainly threatens our culture."
A few more:
* Question Copyright
* Deoxy: Against Intellectual Property
* Agorist views on Intellectual Property (c.f. Konkin's arguments in Informational Property: Logorights.
* Contingency market / Fund and release (Threshold pledge)