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| Author | Content |
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| Sander_Marechal Mar 11, 2009 3:36 PM EDT |
You can download their entire book for free from their website. Here's a direct link: http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinalall.pdf |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 11, 2009 4:07 PM EDT |
Gee, you mean I didn't mention this one several times on these blogs already? Then I'd better get busy. No, I'm lazy, just look at everything Stephen Kinsella has written: http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/stephan_kinsella/ http://www.lewrockwell.com/kinsella/kinsella-arch.html |
| Sander_Marechal Mar 11, 2009 4:10 PM EDT |
Sorry Bob, but I tend not to follow links that point to mises.org so I probably missed that. |
| jdixon Mar 11, 2009 4:24 PM EDT |
> ...I tend not to follow links that point to mises.org... Understandable, but probably not a good idea. :) There is some good stuff there. I can see where it might get a bit overwhelming if you have any reservations concerning their theories. |
| bigg Mar 11, 2009 5:24 PM EDT |
Did you look at their "Against Monopoly" blog? Stephen Kinsella is one of their bloggers. |
| hkwint Mar 11, 2009 8:04 PM EDT |
I'd say the best subjects on this topic I came across until know is Research on Innovation: http://www.researchoninnovation.org/about.htm plenty of economic studies suggesting these patents are bad. On our continent (even our country!), UNU-MERIT once did a study on the effect of software patents on the economy and FLOSS in particular if I remember correctly, but I lost track of the report. The best solution I ever saw for this whole problem (patent trolls, not me losing my bookmarks) is by the FFII: http://eupat.ffii.org/07/p2parl/exam/ which in short reads: -Patents should be granted immediately after filing, without expensive and lengthy research of validity, thereby making it really cheap to apply for a patent -Those finding an invalid patent should receive a reward, -That reward is paid by those who filed the invalid patent in first place. If that would happen, a whole community would make sure no bad patents would exist, decreasing the work of EPO/USPTO (EPO demonstrated against the high workload recently), and that community would be paid by the 'patent-polluters'. Nonetheless, it would still be cheap for independent (small) developers / inventors to receive patents. |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 12, 2009 9:42 AM EDT |
Sander, I didn't know that dklevine.com was a link to mises.org. :^) But seriously, since the abuses of patent/copyright come up all the time, I am glad to see "Against Intellectual Monopoly" get highlighted for itself. |
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