tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post115046887387505886..comments2024-03-29T08:44:12.249-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: CC-NC (2)Stephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-1150473326307356772006-06-16T11:55:00.000-04:002006-06-16T11:55:00.000-04:00Just starting into the book, The wealth of network...Just starting into the book, <A HREF="http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/" REL="nofollow">The wealth of networks</A>, but this quote from the first chapter seems relevant:<BR/><BR/>"When one cuts through the rent-seeking politics of intellectual property lobbies like the pharmaceutical companies or Hollywood and the recording industry; when one overcomes the honestly erroneous, but nonetheless conscience-soothing beliefs of lawyers who defend the copyright and patent-dependent industries and the judges they later become, the reality of both theory and empirics in the economics of intellectual property is that both in theory and as far as empirical evidence shows, there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law."Harold Jarchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462304722726586155noreply@blogger.com