Patent Absurdity
Ending a drug company scam
Lawrence Lessig on the fate of copyrights and computer networks in the digital future.
Want to play that new CD on your computer? You may need a black felt-tip pen.
Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future.
Judge and scholar Richard A. Posner speaks out on the Clinton impeachment, the Microsoft case, and nude dancing.
As government expands "takings" to intellectual property and other intangibles, will business start to care about property rights?
In the information economy, intellectual property is bringing huge returns. But just how will society split up the bounty?
In cyberspace, copyright infringement is only a click away. Commonsense guidelines to intelectual property in unsettled territory.
Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.
From the Wild East of Russian capitalism to the evolving forms of cyberspace, Esther Dyson likes the promise of unsettled territory--and the challenge of civilizing it.