Intellectual Property

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Against Intellectual Property
by Stephan N Kinsella - Ludwig von Mises Institute , 2008
The author argues that the existence of patents, copyrights and trademarks are contrary to a free market. They all use the state to create artificial scarcities of non-scarce goods and employ coercion in a way that is contrary to property rights.
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Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig - Penguin Press HC , 2004
Never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture.
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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
by James Boyle - Yale University Press , 2008
In this book the author describes the range wars of the information age — today’s heated battles over intellectual property. He argues that every informed citizen needs to know at least something about intellectual property law.
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