http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/23/copyrights-and-patents-capitalism-and-creative-progress/ Gearing Up for Social and Technological Insurrection :: anarchotranshumanism.com Mon, 02 May 2011 05:46:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/23/copyrights-and-patents-capitalism-and-creative-progress/#comment-1281 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:08:54 +0000 http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/23/copyrights-and-patents-capitalism-and-creative-progress/#comment-1281 Good information regarding patent laws…Thanks

]]> http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/23/copyrights-and-patents-capitalism-and-creative-progress/#comment-331 Thu, 24 May 2007 05:05:28 +0000 http://anarchotranshumanism.com/2007/05/23/copyrights-and-patents-capitalism-and-creative-progress/#comment-331 [...] Discussions of intellectual property laws, and what might be done to loosen them, often hit a snag: what is the individual to do? Too often there are just the personal acts of resistance – the copying and distribution of movies, music, and software, accompanied by bleats of “information should be free”, “culture should be free”, and other such nonsense. All quite selfish and pathetic, and almost always, I’d wager, unaccompanied by any channeling of the pirated savings toward the open source projects, non-corporate artists, and consumer advocacy that would help render such sordid information embezzlement unappealing in the first place. [...]

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