Comments on: Congress shall make no law http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/03/12/congress-shall-make-no-law/ Duke's source for advice and information about copyright and publication issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:32:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dale B. Halling http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/03/12/congress-shall-make-no-law/comment-page-1/#comment-790591 Dale B. Halling Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:25:03 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/?p=1261#comment-790591 The “scarcity theory of property rights” is being advanced by a number of scholars at the Cato and Von Mises Institutes. Using this theory they suggest that there is no justification for intellectual property rights. The logical conclusion of their theory is intellectual labor is not deserving of pecuniary reward. Are they correct that scarcity is the basis of property rights? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/22/scarcity-%e2%80%93-does-it-prove-intellectual-property-is-unjustified/ Is the conception of ideas and inventions subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-for-inventions/ Is the distribution of ideas and invention (technology diffusion) subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-of-adoptiondistribution-of-technology/ The “scarcity theory of property rights” is being advanced by a number of scholars at the Cato and Von Mises Institutes. Using this theory they suggest that there is no justification for intellectual property rights. The logical conclusion of their theory is intellectual labor is not deserving of pecuniary reward.

Are they correct that scarcity is the basis of property rights? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/22/scarcity-%e2%80%93-does-it-prove-intellectual-property-is-unjustified/

Is the conception of ideas and inventions subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-for-inventions/

Is the distribution of ideas and invention (technology diffusion) subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-of-adoptiondistribution-of-technology/

]]> By: Copyright and Service « The Scholarly Kitchen http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/03/12/congress-shall-make-no-law/comment-page-1/#comment-492651 Copyright and Service « The Scholarly Kitchen Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:42:22 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/?p=1261#comment-492651 [...] A post at the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog caught my eye recently, and seemed to dovetail with this question. It’s worth reading. And it pointed to a post by Peter Jackson at Thomson Reuters, who makes an even more tantalizing poing: what if books (and, I’d add, journals) are no longer products, but services? [...] [...] A post at the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog caught my eye recently, and seemed to dovetail with this question. It’s worth reading. And it pointed to a post by Peter Jackson at Thomson Reuters, who makes an even more tantalizing poing: what if books (and, I’d add, journals) are no longer products, but services? [...]

]]> By: Peter Jackson http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/03/12/congress-shall-make-no-law/comment-page-1/#comment-469261 Peter Jackson Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:34:02 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/?p=1261#comment-469261 I don’t pretend to understand the implications of e-Books for copyright law. I’m not a lawyer, and I’ve yet to hear a lawyer express a coherent opinion on this topic. I did hear Bill Patry give a talk on copyright at the 2008 Information Industry Summit (in fact, I invited him to speak); he seemed to suggest that copyright in the electronic world was at best in a state of flux and at worst unenforceable. In his role as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel, this stance may have been self-serving. It certainly didn’t endear him to the audience of publishers! I don’t pretend to understand the implications of e-Books for copyright law. I’m not a lawyer, and I’ve yet to hear a lawyer express a coherent opinion on this topic. I did hear Bill Patry give a talk on copyright at the 2008 Information Industry Summit (in fact, I invited him to speak); he seemed to suggest that copyright in the electronic world was at best in a state of flux and at worst unenforceable. In his role as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel, this stance may have been self-serving. It certainly didn’t endear him to the audience of publishers!

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