Monopoly and Competition

In the copyright equivalent of mummies rising from the dead,

Education and social critic Alfie Kohn is an exhaustive researcher and engaging writer.

Hypocrisy in the area of IP is nothing new.

Coming across a mention of 3D printers in the

Kodak and Sony End Patent Fight.

I pointed out in There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent that “The conventional defense of the

This morning’s New York Times business page reports

I know nothing about the tire market but it seems clear that the unions

One argument against intellectual property is that property rights should be recognized only in scarce (rivalrous) resources.

The issue of whether non-scarce things like thoughts or labor are ownable has arisen in recent debates—see, e.g.,