Intellectual Property is Murder

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John deLaubenfels's picture

I've watched Kevin Carson get more and more outlandish in his condemnations of IP, but this has GOT to take the cake. I guess, according to Carson and his wild-eyed friends, I'M a murderer, because I support copyright. What incredible nonsense!

AtlasAikido's picture

Re: John deLaubenfels's "I've watched Kevin Carson get more and more outlandish in his condemnations of IP, but this has GOT to take the cake. I guess, according to Carson and his wild-eyed friends, I'M a murderer, because I support copyright. What incredible nonsense!"

John brings up the issue of what IS productive and what IS destructive? And takes it personally. Is he a "murderer"? Or intellectually dishonest or still catching up with new ideas? He does not state what in the article makes him--John--a murderer? But then he does not support his assertion but leaves it out there--by implication--that it is "incredibly" obvious.

Let's talk about "copyright" since that's what he refers to (I thought the article was about "patents") but he did not address that. Either way I will touch on both.

I am not in the fashion industry but I do enjoy the open ecology of creativity--innovation and its modeling--that results from NO copyright. And the riffing off the zeitgeist process. Elevating things to cover our naked bodies into something considered art...

Sort of mundane? Perhaps let us proceed a little deeper....

Johanna Blakley studies the impact of jokes, food, automobiles, furniture, magic tricks, hair, open source, tattoos, fire works, rules of games, and the smell of perfume on our world.

Compare the Gross Sales of those NON-IP industries Vs those with Intellectual Property. It aint pretty. One could say pretty ugly!

"How a world without copyright would exist”?
http://www.ted.com/talks/
johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html

Two different mindsets. Two different worlds.

Nothing is absolutely original--we all ultimately stand on the shoulders of others--yet this turns out to be tremendously freeing from confusions about Independence and Dependence and what is actually productive and what is not (It does require some thinking....)

Which leads into embracing Emulation...

If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?
Mises Daily: Monday, November 16, 2009 by Jeffrey A. Tucker
http://mises.org/daily/3864

But if John think's Food and Autos are no big deal Then oh well...live and let live. Please go ahead and continue practicing copyright IP as it is, in the face of the emergence of alternatives that are Feeding and Transporting the world w/o IP.

Next thingy on the subject of the article. Patents

Want to say a walnut is good for you? No way! It cannot be patented so shut the fuck up says the FDA! It is good for too many things.

Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
http://lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant42.1.html

If you think it's just walnuts that the FDA has a problem with watch them snack on this man's achievement and the terminal cancer patients he HAS brought back from the death sentences and worse (if that is possible).

This is what big pharma PATENT hungry govt/biz Statism has wrought. This goes back to the 70's.

June 22, 2011
Fighting Cancer, Inc.
Posted by Lew Rockwell on June 22, 2011 08:44 AM

Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD—a Houston physician and biochemist—has saved the lives of many "terminal" cancer patients through alternative treatments. Naturally, he was targeted by the FDA, agent of big pharma. This is his amazing and inspiring story. The movie, btw, is very much worth watching. (Thanks to Marian Tiberiu Vintilescu)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/
archives/90136.html

Cheers!

PS So let us add to the evidence presented by Kevin Carson on IP and the "murder"--if there is malice aforethought--of a division of labor society (which consist of individuals)....