The most confronting book I ever read in economics was the David Levine book Against Intellectual Monopoly. That book shook up everything I believed about the law and economics of patents and copyrights and the history of the same too. I have a lot of trouble disagreeing with their position that patents and copyrights should be abolished.
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Last night, I chatted with Bryan Crump over at Radio New Zealand Nights about copyright. It seemed a timely topic with copyright being the most (to me) annoying part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
I’m agnostic about the overall benefits of the deal but lean toward that it’s better for New Zealand to be in, given that it exists, but perhaps even better if the U.S. Congress fails to ratify the deal if that could mean everybody else gets to strip out the copyright nonsense from it. That said, the deal on copyright could have been far worse and the deal we have is much better than I feared it could have been. Parallel importation remains; existing geolock circumvention provisions remain in place.
I typically write up some notes for myself prior to the chat and send them along to give a bit of background. There’s plenty of stuff we never…
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