Intellectual Property

Policy

When Legal Meets Marketing

Entertainment and technology converge with culture and politics.

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2006 1:57 PM

Culture

When Piracy Becomes Promotion

How unauthorized copying made Japanese animation profitable in the United States.

Henry Jenkins | 11.17.2006 2:44 AM

Policy

Antigua vs. Hollywood

Radley Balko | 11.16.2006 1:20 PM

Policy

DMCA, Please Go Away

Brian Doherty | 11.2.2006 2:40 PM

Policy

Who Killed Kenny on YouTube?

Nick Gillespie | 10.30.2006 11:27 AM

Policy

Doomsday for Doha

Washington vs. free trade

Jesse Walker | 7.28.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Fashion Police

Copyrighting couture.

Julian Sanchez | 7.20.2006 1:57 PM

Policy

Patent Remedies

Do we need drug patents?

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Intellectual Property

The Messianic Legacy

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2006 5:47 PM

Policy

Recorded History

Locked up by copyright laws.

Julian Sanchez | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

The Secret Sharer

Executive patent privilege.

Matt Welch | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Stop the Music

Taking on the record industry.

Julian Sanchez | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Scare Quotes

Watching The Watchtower.

Jeff Taylor | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Reason Express

Vol. 8 No. 49

Jeff Taylor | 12.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Democrats—Not for Free Speech Anymore!

Matt Welch | 11.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

What's So Eminent About Public Domain?

The copyright lobby makes a dubious case for IP protection

Timothy Lee | 10.31.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Reason Express

Vol. 8 No. 36

Jeff Taylor | 9.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Death of the Auteur

Film filtering freedom.

Julian Sanchez | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Who Should Reign Supreme?

Reason asks libertarian legal experts: Who are your favorites--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court?

Reason Staff | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Don't Stop Grokkin'

Apparent MGM v. Grokster slamdunk is really a mixed bag

Mike Godwin | 6.27.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Who Gets to Play Journalist?

An academic question becomes a pressing legal issue.

Matt Welch | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Copyright

Sometimes Unintended Consequences Can Be Good

Jesse Walker | 5.4.2005 12:03 AM

Policy

Quote and Source

Reason Staff | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Suit Torrent

Hollywood vs. downloaders

Julian Sanchez | 4.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Copyrighting the Air

WIPO roundup

Jesse Walker | 3.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do Drug Companies Kill Poor People?

How for-profit medicine helps even the poorest

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Greenpeace Declares Victory Against Wheat Patent

Except it wasn't really a patent. And Greenpeace didn't really have anything to do with it

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Induce Vomiting

Banning peer-to-peer networks.

Hanah Metchis | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Illegal Music

The war on sampling.

Julian Sanchez | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Disney's War Against the Counterculture

Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.

Bob Levin | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Lawrence Lessig

Byte the Bullet!

Nick Gillespie | 11.24.2004 10:56 AM

Policy

Free Culture vs. Big Media

Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.

David Post | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

John Perry Barlow 2.0

The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body -- and his politics.

Brian Doherty | 8.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Jabbing JibJab

Copyright law vs. political satire

Jesse Walker | 7.29.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Regulating Radios

Broadcast flag at half-mast.

Julian Sanchez | 7.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

DJ Clampdown

Illicit turntablism.

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Patent Sense

Letting genes out of the bottle.

Brian Doherty | 4.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

D.C. Schoolmarms Build Better Mousetrap

P2P paranoia leads Disney into the culture warriors' den

Radley Balko | 3.11.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

35 Years of reason

A history in excerpts

Reason Staff | 12.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Speculative Fiction

What do misleading domain names and intellectual freedom have in common?

A.B. Berens | 9.26.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar

Stopping downloads won't fix the music business

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

BioPiracy and Other Myths

Saying "Yes Patents on Life"

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Want to E-mail Me about This Article?

Pay Up

Jonathan Rauch | 8.11.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 6.1.2003 12:00 AM

Culture

Monster Mash-Ups

How musical collages are challenging traditional ideas of authorship.

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Creation Myths

Does innovation require intellectual property rights?

Douglas Clement | 3.1.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Mickey Mouse Clubbed

Disney's cartoon rodent speaks out on the Eldred decision.

Jesse Walker | 1.17.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Secret History of Television

Corporate power, patent law, and lone inventors

Jesse Walker | 11.1.2002 12:00 AM