Tag: IP
Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originale pubblicato il 26 aprile 2016 con il titolo Capitalism Comes in Many Flavors? Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In un recente commento pubblicato sul Washington Post dal titolo La crisi d’identità del capitalismo americano (26 maggio 2016), Steven Pearlstein fa una tassonomia del capitalismo che, a suo dire, “esiste in tante…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale Kevin Carson tarafından kaleme alınmış ve ilk olarak The Freeman tarafından yayımlanmıştır. 4 Ocak 2013 tarihinde ise C4SS’de yayınlanmış, Efsa tarafından Türkçe’ye çevrilmiştir. “Fikri mülkiyet hakları” ile ilgili herhangi bir değerlendirme, bu tür “hakların” gerçek mülkiyet haklarını baltaladığı ve bu nedenle özgürlükçü ilke açısından gayri meşru olduğu anlayışıyla başlamalıdır. Gerçek, somut…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 10 novembre 2014 con il titolo How the Soviet Union Won the Cold War. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Non so quando questo articolo vedrà la luce. Al momento di scrivere, tutto il mondo celebra, con giusto entusiasmo, la caduta della Cortina di Ferro avvenuta venticinque anni fa. Durante…
Kevin Carson. Artículo original: How the Soviet Union Won the War, del 10 de noviembre de 2014. Traducción al español de Vince Cerberus. No sé cuándo se imprimirá esta columna, pero mientras la escribo, personas de todo el mundo celebran, con legítimo entusiasmo, la caída del Telón de Acero hace 25 años. Durante la Guerra Hispanoamericana, William…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale 1995 yılında Roderick Long tarafından Free Nation Foundation için kaleme alınmış, 29 Kasım 2012’de ise C4SS’de yayınlanmıştır. “İfade kanallarının mevcut konjonktürden çıkar sağlayan kişiler tarafından bu denli büyük ölçüde kontrol edildiği bir toplumda telif hakları kanununun topluma sağladığı sözde faydaları eleştirecek bir görüşün kamuya açık bir şekilde ifade edilme ihtimalini düşünmek…
De David Coetzee. Artículo original: There is More to Industrial Enclosure than Patents, del 17 de junio de 2014. Traducido al español por Luis Vera Suárez. Eric Blattberg, escribiendo para VenturBeat, reporta (“ Tesla Motors: Please infringe on our patents for the greater good”) que la manufacturera de autos eléctricos Tesla permitirá de ahora en…
Di Asem. Originale pubblicato il 13 aprile 2020 con il titolo Benjamin Tucker’s Four Property Regimes and the Spirit of Capitalism. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Molte discussioni sull’economia politica sono reazioni a problemi attuali: aumentare o abbassare le tasse, come imporre le leggi sul lavoro, e questioni simili di centrodestra o centrosinistra, con tutto un…
Most political economy discussions are about crafting contemporary policy responses, such as increasing or lowering tax rates, setting regulatory bodies to enforce labor laws, and other similar center-left and center-right electoral issues, with a class of think tank staffers and media pundits arguing back and forth. In this discussion almost all political fundamentals are agreed…
Di Frank Miroslav. Originale pubblicato il 24 settembre 2018 con il titolo The Future of Digital Proudhonism. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Un recente articolo di Gavin Mueller per boundary 2 online journal, “Digital Proudhonism” è una critica marxista di quello che Mueller definisce “proudhonismo digitale”, un termine generico che indica chi crede che la tecnologia…
Gavin Mueller’s recent article for the boundary 2 online journal, “Digital Proudhonism” is a Marxist critique of what Mueller describes as “Digital Proudhonism,” a catchall term for those who believe that technology is lowering class barriers. Digital Proudhonism is not a formal ideology but rather an undercurrent expressed by a variety of individuals from all…
[Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 9 marzo 2017 con il titolo Time tu Use Uber’s Weapons — Against Uber. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna.] Uber, la controversa azienda corporativa mascherata da servizio di “ride-sharing”, ha recentemente provocato nuove polemiche rivelando alcuni aspetti di Greyball, il programma che permette di…
Uber, the controversial corporate employer masquerading as a “ride-sharing” service, has recently stirred up more controversy with new revelations about its Greyball program for circumventing enforcement of local taxicab monopolies. Greyball maintains a database of likely local government officials. This database is populated by users who frequently open and close the Uber app near government buildings,…
C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” read by Tony Dreher and edited by Nick Ford. In 2008, we heard a lot of stuff from Obama about the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping and Gitmo; and then in January 2009 Obama turned on a dime and enacted George Bush’s third term on such issues….
C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “‘Intellectual Property’ Kills’” read by Mike Godzina and edited by Nick Ford. The key agenda at the center of all the so-called “free trade agreements” is the imposition, at the behest of the giant corporations that depend on “intellectual property” monopolies for their profits, of a form of protectionism…
On June 22nd pop mega-star Taylor Swift, released an open letter to Apple Music, refusing to grant the company’s new music streaming service access to her newest album. Her letter was a response to Apple’s policy of not paying musicians whose work is listened to, by customers during their three month, free trial of Apple’s…
On May 25th a lawyer of Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij told a Swedish newspaper his client seeks to appeal the recent Stockholm District Court ruling which granted the Swedish government control over the company’s domain names “piratebay.se” and “thepiratebay.se”. For those who do not know, The Pirate Bay facilitates the online sharing of data…
Every time I read a column by John Stossel, I think my estimation of him has fallen to its theoretical limit. And then I read the next one. For years, Stossel has tipped his hat to the idea that “pro-market” and “pro-business” are not the same thing. He occasionally gives an example of welfare for…
C4SS Feed 44 presents Erick Vasconcelos‘ “It’s Time to Destroy DRM” read by Tony Dreher and edited by Nick Ford. “From Apple’s cat-and-mouse race with jailbreaking phone buyers, to Amazon’s move into “exclusive” programming for its streaming service, to Netflix’s region-blocking (enthusiastically supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, a powerful US IP lobby), to rampant…
In an April 24 speech, new “Intellectual Property” Czar Danny Marti confessed that the whole point of federal IP policy is to inflate nominal GDP and corporate profits by maximizing what monopolists are able to charge for stuff. He didn’t mean to state it that baldly, of course. But that’s what it amounts to —…
C4SS Feed 44 presents “How “Intellectual Property” Impedes Competition” from the book Markets Not Capitalism, written by Kevin Carson, read by Stephanie Murphy and edited by Nick Ford. Since intellectual property is not necessary to encourage innovation, this means that its main practical effect is to cause economic inefficiency by levying a monopoly charge on the use of existing…
