Techdirt Podcast Episode 232: Copying Is Not Theft

from the it-just-isn't dept

We've said it before (and even put it on a t-shirt) and we'll say it again: copying is not theft, and intellectual "property" is anything but. In September, the Niskanen Center published an excellent paper exploring this issue and explaining why IP is a misnomer — and this week we've got one of the authors of that paper, Daniel Takash, to discuss in more detail why property is simply the wrong lens for looking at copyrights and patents.

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Filed Under: copying, copyright, daniel takash, intellectual property, patents, podcast


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    Anonymous Coward, 13 Nov 2019 @ 6:19am

    You could say....

    That conflation of copying with theft is "Patently" absurd....

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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      Anonymous Coward, 13 Nov 2019 @ 4:44pm

      Re: You could say....

      Copyright law and patent law are often conflated to begin with.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Anonymous Coward, 31 Dec 2019 @ 1:37am

    Proof of spying

    What if I have overwhelming proof of spys and terrorism?

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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