Edward Morbius linked to Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (last blog posts from 2015)
I am reminded of me picking up *Piracy* by Adrian Johns back in 2014.
I want to read it all, but I don’t know when to do it. Something for 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.
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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