Book: The Case for Copyright Reform

Pirate MEP Christian Engström and Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge just presented their book The Case for Copyright Reform in the European Parlament.

On the web page www.copyrightreform.eu you can find it for free in various electronic formats (PDF, ePub, OD etc.). If you are on a mobile phone, you might want to go to the mobile-friendly minimalistic HTML-file, to start reading on your browser at once.

And if you are sitting by your computer, and have Flash installed, you can read it right here, right now:

Open publication - Free publishing

Do you prefer a book on paper? Order it at Lulu (ww) or Books on Demand (Scandinavia).

How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism

Presented by Stephan Kinsella at the 2010 Mises Institute Supporters Summit. Recorded in Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.

Stephan Kinsellas web-page.

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Michele Boldrin: Against Intellectual Monopoly

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Cato Institute . Book Forum . November 10, 2008

http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5362

Copyright & Patent Laws Are Hurting the Economy

Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine call for abolishing the current patent and copyright system in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy. The professors discuss their stand against intellectual property protections in this video.

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Larry Lessig: Creativity is being strangled by law

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Podcast: Boldrin on Intellectual Property

From EconTalk, Libary of Economics and Liberty:

"Michele Boldrin of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about intellectual property and Boldrin's book, co-written with David Levine, Against Intellectual Property." 

"Boldrin argues that copyright and patent are used by the politically powerful to maintain monopoly profits. He argues that the incentive effects that have been used to justify copyright and patents are exaggerated–few examples from history suggest that the temporary and not-so-temporary monopoly power from copyright and patents were necessary to induce innovation." 

"Boldrin reviews some of that evidence and talks about the nature of competition."

Listen directly / download the podcast as an MP3-file, download the book (legally) and find relevant links here. »