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  • Think it will work this time?

  • […] Update: Welcome ArtFire and Etsy readers. And an update with a link to a recent critical analysis of the proposal is here. […]

  • What makes people in the fashion industry think that what they do is important enough to warrant the creation of a monopoly? If the entire haute couture industry suddenly disappeared, how would society be harmed? It might even be beneficial in reducing the incidence of eating disorders among young women.

  • I think it’s bizarre that at a time when government respect for property rights for physical, tangible property like real estate, cars, and money is at an all-time low, that government is making such an obsessive-compulsive fetish out of intellectual property rights, extending them to every far-fetched thing under the sun.

  • […] at the American Constitution Society’s ACSblog. Earlier on the Design Piracy Prohibition Act here and […]