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Hollywood vs the internet

[HT Forbes]

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market

[HT Mises Blog]

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Open-source blueprint for civilization

[HT Mises Blog]

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Ted Talk: Visualizing Humanity with Aaron Koblin

[HT Infosthetics]

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Lessig: Copyright isn’t just hurting creativity: it’s killing science

[HT Mother Board]

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.

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Dan Cathy: High Tech for High Customer Touch

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Intellectual Property Panel of NYU School of Law

[HT Mises.org]

Here is an excellent symposium on intellectual property law. There are three speakers including one allied with the Mises Institute who provides an excellent argument against IP altogether. While the other two accept and support IP laws, it is interesting to note what all three do agree on in terms of the history, intent, and historical results are of intellectual property law.

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Khan: Use video to ‘flip’ education

[HT Joanne Jacobs]

The Khan Academy is an excellent online resource that many luminaries, including Bill Gates, have endorsed as either an educational supplement (which was its initial purpose) or a harbinger of a profoundly new way of “doing” education.

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GTK in the browser

Gtk+ broadway demo from Alexander Larsson on Vimeo.

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