David Levine writes to tell me about his blog, which is on the same theme as his book: abolishing patents and copyrights. Although I wasn’t persuaded by his talk, I thought it was an interesting and provocative presentation, and I’m looking forward to reading his blog and his book more carefully to consider his arguments in more detail.
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Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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