Author sues the US Government for copyright infringement!
Image via Wikipedia An author and film-maker, J. Neil Schulman, wrote a novel in 1979 about the collapse of the American economy due to massive government overspending and pumping massive amounts of unbacked money and credit into the the system. Schulman claims the US government has stolen his plot! How long before the Randians follow [...]
The urge to save humanity
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken The same point was made by Ayn Rand in both her fiction and non-fiction, but I found it hard to accept. Where is the evidence, I wanted to know. Well, today, I found it, on Austrian [...]
Monty Python turns tables on the YouTube pirates
Monty Python’s Smart Choice is a short blog entry by Jeffrey Tucker, and forms the latest in a series he’s been writing about copyright. Gizmodo, where Tucker found the original news about the Monty Python YouTube channel, adds, A controlled release of free material keeps people from resorting to piracy and keeps them in your [...]
