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Nina Paley on Property, Copyleft, Copyright at HOPE 2010 Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Artist and anti-copyright innovator Nina Paley , creator of Sita Sings the Blues , has posted an edited video with excerpts of her talk “Sita Sings the Blues: a Free Culture Success Story” at The Next H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, July 16 2010 in New York City. (See also The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright ; Interview: Nina Paley on Copyright ; Nina Paley’s “All Creative Work is Derivative” ; Power to the Pixel 2009: Nina Paley .) The talk includes: why I insisted on authentic songs, what is and is not property, software is culture, the difference between Share Alike (copyleft) and other Creative Commons licenses, why I paid to legally license the old songs, how noncommercial copyright infringement is still illegal, legal costs, benefits of audience sharing & decentralized distribution, the Sita Sings the Blues Merchandise Empire (sitasingstheblues.com/store), open-licensed merch, audience goodwill, how fans support artists, rivalrous vs.
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Nina Paley on Property, Copyleft, Copyright at HOPE 2010
Well, it finally happened in my own community. That stupid Bush-era law that rations pseudoephedrine, the ingredient that makes Mucinex and Sudafed work to unstuff the nose, has finally landed someone in the slammer for 20 years . Tanna Nacole Jarrell is 31 years old and she will likely be in jail for 20 years — essentially wrecking her life.
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Buy Sudafed and Go to Jail
For a long while it has been clear that statists, right, left, and center, have been growing more and more alike — that their common devotion to the State has transcended their minor differences in style. FULL ARTICLE by Murray N. Rothbard Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: Posthumous Refutations Capitalism vs.
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Statism Left, Right, and Center
Tom Woods just delivered his first Mises Academy live session (for his online course The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law ) and the student consensus in the public chat is clear: as one student wrote, “great first class!!!” First, Woods gave an outstanding lecture on the origins of the 1929 crash (see his informative slides here ). Then he answered topical questions at length. After he finished with the curricular questions, he stuck around and chatted with the students about anything they wanted to talk about! The conversation ranged from medieval history to life on the lecture circuit to Ayn Rand
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Wasn’t that fun?
The local state community college just opened a satellite campus five miles from my house. This afternoon, while on a bike ride, I headed over to check it out. The college website loudly proclaims that the campus is “being built to rigorous LEED environmental standards.” Ah, yes, LEED standards.
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Compliance models equal nonsense
While listening to Sirius XM’s “The 80′s on 8″ I heard original MTV VJ Mark Goodman go on about John Mellencamp “speaking the truth” at the Grammy Museum. Now Mr. Mellencamp is not just some aging rocker quietly collecting royalties from songs about “little pink houses” in order to pay for his daughter’s equestrian habit
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Internet=A-Bomb?
On Wednesday, Robert Murphy will begin his online course Principles of Economics using selections from his book Lessons for the Young Economist as the main text. Having read the entire book myself, I can testify that it is an outstanding achievement in the realm of basic economics education. Dr
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Learn Economics Online with a Great Course, Book, and Teacher
For more than two years now, and even longer depending on your dating scheme, the federal government has waged war on the reality of the incredible Fed-fueled bubble that developed in housing with spillover effects on the rest of economic life. That bubble had to explode to restore some sanity to the economic environment. There is no getting around that
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Reality Economics
You know, there are some laugh-out-loud moments in this New York Times piece that dares to imagine the unthinkable: Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall . As the economy again sputters and potential buyers flee — July housing sales sank 26 percent from July 2009 — there is a growing sense of exhaustion with government intervention. Some economists and analysts are now urging a dose of shock therapy that would greatly shift the benefits to future homeowners: Let the housing market crash.
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The Market? The NYT Contemplates the Unthinkable
Ohio law requires new drivers under the age of 18 to complete a state-approved driver education course consisting of “a minimum of 24 hours of classroom instruction and 8 hours behind the wheel.” So it should come as no surprise that there are a host of private companies providing state-approved driver training.
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Dancing for the state
Watch Importation, Copyright, and the First-Sale Doctrine The “Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200m” wristwatch. In Cutting edges , blogger Peter Gordon relates a fascinating case where Swiss watchmaker Omega found a brilliantly evil trick using IP law to crack down on innocent market activity. Omega sells its watches for far less money in some countries than in others, a common enough practice known to economists as “geographical price discrimination.” The U.S
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Leveraging IP
Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness reports that a federal court has certified an antitrust class action brought on behalf of all iPhone owners—alleging Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&T illegally monopolizes the market for “iPhone telephone service.” Frank notes this is a mandatory class, “meaning that every iPhone owner with an AT&T Mobility two-year contract is now involuntarily represented by attorneys that apparently care more about the possibility of extortionate settlement profit than the clients they purportedly represent.” Frank is looking for an economic expert to refute this “quack antitrust analysis” on the record as part of an effort to decertify the class.
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Court Declares iPhone Owners Victims
Berin Szoka , a self-described “cyber-libertarian” attorney who works for the DC-based Progress and Freedom Foundation, felt it necessary to backpedal recently on his criticism of the Federal Trade Commission. Szoka wrote on July 13 that he and his PFF colleagues are “actually big fans of the FTC’s core consumer protection mission: holding companies to their promises ” (italics his). Szoka said the FTC needs “increased funding”—though not necessarily “increased powers”—to stay true to this core mission
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Outing a Closeted Statist
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone’s economic and historical education. FULL ARTICLE by Thomas Woods Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: The Forgotten Depression of 1920 Woods Tells the Story of the Meltdown Mises Circle event in Colorado Springs
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Know the New Deal Cold
The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. FULL ARTICLE by Ludwig von Mises Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: Wages, Unemployment, and Inflation Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism Semantic Tools and Faulty Nomenclature
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The History of Capitalism
One of the United States’ most blatant examples of protectionism — so blatant that it is used as an illustration of the idea in some economics textbooks — is its sugar policy. FULL ARTICLE by Gary Galles Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: Economics of Oblivion Remember the Father of the Constitution The Inclination to Love Liberty
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Not Exactly Sweet Reason
As the economy attempts to cleanse itself of the malinvestments of the decade-long bubble, jobs dominated by men have been sacrificed: construction, finance, and manufacturing. Hanna Rosin writes in the Atlantic , “The recession merely revealed—and accelerated—a profound economic shift that has been going on for at least 30 years, and in some respects even longer.” Rosin makes clear that whatever it is that men bring to the party is not needed anymore. Job categories dominated by women are expected to thrive in the coming years and women are earning half again as many college degrees as males
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The End of Men
I am of course very pleased by this review of my book by Robert Wenzel, with whom I had various debates over IP – one of which led to explosive results. So it is kind of him to say these nice things. There are indeed several chapters that explore the issue of IP, which I’m increasingly regarding as a mere application of a larger principle that is becoming clearer to libertarians today: the role of learning in the formation of social order.
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Bourbon for Breakfast review
Professor Joshua Wright of the George Mason University Law School recently authored an “ antitrust analysis ” of the Federal Trade Commission’s pending administrative complaint against Intel: This complaint is noteworthy for at least five reasons. First, prior to the complaint, the European Union had already assessed record-setting antitrust fines against Intel for the same conduct. Second, Intel had also already effectively ended the dispute when it settled with its chief rival, AMD
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Intel Is Nothing New
I recently attended at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum , Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report ). I delivered a speech entitled “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property.” The speech following mine was by one Terence Kealey , a biochemist at the University of Buckingham and author of Sex, Science and Profits and The Economic Laws of Scientific Research
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Terence Kealey: “Science is a Private Good–Or: Why Government Science is Wasteful”
George Mason’s Bryan Caplan writes in “ The Breeder’s Cup ” that parenting isn’t as hard as it appears. “Once you realize that your kids’ future largely rests in their own hands, you can give yourself a guilt-free break,” and he makes the case for having more
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Just in time for father’s day
A few days after telling the American Medical Association that he was not a socialist , Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz went right back to implementing health care socialism. On Friday, the FTC announced its 36th “consent order” since 2001 against a physician group for the crime of negotiating a contract without FTC consent.
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Remember, It’s Not Socialism
I remember working in collections at a bank back in the early ’90s and delinquent borrowers would say they couldn’t pay because their businesses hit the ditch when the first Gulf War started: Gas prices rose, people cut back on other spending, etc. Now, BP’s spill is the boogie man keeping businesses from prospering
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Always something to blame
Not only can you download an ePub version of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises; not only can you download an ePub version of Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard; now you can also download the accompanying study guides by Robert P. Murphy: Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: Mises, Rothbard in .epub Human Action Study Guide: First Look Human Action Study Guide Chapters 17-20
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ePub Study Guides by Robert P. Murphy
Paul Krugman still is on his bandwagon about the imaginary “austerity” programs of the USA and Germany. Of course, we might ask, “What austerity?” I answer in my KIW post today . Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: I challenge Krugman on “Austerity” and Spending Krugman on Hayek and Liquidation: Wrong Again Krugman Continues His Bogus China Jihad
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Krugman: Cutting Back Government Spending Will Lead to Recession
At the last minute, the Federal Trade Commission decided not to retroactively challenge the Google-AdMob merger after all: The Federal Trade Commission has voted 5-0 to close its investigation of Google’s proposed acquisition of AdMob. The decision was a difficult one because the parties currently are the two leading mobile advertising networks, and the Commission was concerned about the loss of head-to-head competition between them.
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FTC to Google: You’re Off the Hook…for Now
Here Author/filmmaker, J. Neil Schulman, today announced his intention to file a lawsuit for copyright infringement of his 1979 novel, Alongside Night, which tells the story of the collapse of the American economy due to massive government overspending and the issuing of unbacked money and credit to pay the interest on the national debt. Schulman intends to name the United States government as his primary defendant
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A copyright lawsuit Kinsella can support