intellectual property

  1. jmdrake

    Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus

    Here's an idea for a small government solution to the outbreak and to medical costs in general. A patent is a government created "right." So...if you're going to price gouge in a life threatening emergency, invalidate the patent...
  2. ClaytonB

    Ed Sheeran's lawsuit: You can't own chords, bro

    Intellectual property is an exercise in madness.
  3. helmuth_hubener

    Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline

    No, opal, I do not think The Pirate Bay counts as a hot topic. Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline DECEMBER 9, 2014 Police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other...
  4. helmuth_hubener

    Apple and Google agree to drop all ongoing lawsuits, will work toward patent reform

    After years of being embroiled in lawsuits, Apple and Google on Friday announced they would be dropping all actions related to smartphone technology. "Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform," the statement said. Apple and HTC announced a similar...
  5. T.hill

    Are Intellectual Property Rights a Positive Right?

    Property as a principle of natural law is the extensions of ones-self through the labor that is invested in it. It can be physically protected by the owner without the action of outside forces thus making it a negative right. Within the scope of protection of our social contract. Now unlike...
  6. pathtofreedom

    It is Time To Finally End Medical Patenting

    Medical patenting as an industry practice creates several problems for the industry as a whole and should be ended. The most obvious effect of medical patenting is that due to the grant of exclusivity on a medicine prices go up sharply. There are also unseen effects of medical patenting, for...
  7. K466

    Ron Paul vs. Ron Paul.com: Both Are in the Wrong

    Posted to my blog: Continue reading here.
  8. Alex Libman

    The #1 Patriot BitTorrent Tracker is Down!

    (Read up on what a "BitTorrent tracker" is here.) Some people will have no idea what I'm talking about, but this could be big! It could even be concievable that the people uploading the videos and threatening to sue is CoIntelPro of some sort... And what a great example of how "Intellectual...
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