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What Patent Wars Have Come To: "We're Fighting Over Rectangles"

Apple v. Samsung trial starts this week, partly over the "look and feel" of tablets and smart phones.

Reason Staff | 7.30.2012 7:12 PM

Someone Tell the Authors Guild: Google Books Is Good for Authors

Jesse Walker | 7.27.2012 1:05 PM

Fan Fiction vs. Copyright—Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 7.20.2012 3:00 PM

Fan Fiction vs. Copyright—Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 7.20.2012 12:00 AM

New York Deli Gets to Keep Serving "Instant Heart Attack"; Nobody Tell Mayor Bloomberg

Ed Krayewski | 7.7.2012 5:44 PM

3D Printing Meets Fine Art

Jesse Walker | 6.15.2012 11:10 AM

The Feds Win Few Friends With Their Megaupload Case

J.D. Tuccille | 6.12.2012 2:57 PM

Megaupload Moves To Dismiss Charges Even as the Case Unravels in New Zealand

J.D. Tuccille | 5.31.2012 2:49 PM

Ripping, Mixing, and Burning Arthur Conan Doyle

Jesse Walker | 5.29.2012 9:10 AM

Some Lawyer Caught You Sampling and He Said "No Way!"

Jesse Walker | 5.9.2012 10:49 AM

Science Fiction Publisher Liberates Its E-Books

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.24.2012 5:20 PM

Reason.tv: Too Much Copyright

Zach Weissmueller | 4.19.2012 3:00 PM

Reason.tv: Too Much Copyright

Zach Weissmueller | 4.19.2012 10:14 AM

Too Much Copyright

Reason Staff | 4.19.2012 12:00 AM

How Copyright Seems to Keep Books Unavailable and Unexploited: A Graph

Brian Doherty | 3.30.2012 5:01 PM

Piracy: It's Not Killing the Entertainment Industry

Brian Doherty | 1.30.2012 12:24 PM

The Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet—For Now

Those who seek control will not give up easily.

Sheldon Richman | 1.20.2012 4:30 PM

Some Views on SOPA & PIPA

Nick Gillespie | 1.18.2012 9:48 AM

Ron Paul Cheers and Jeers; SOPA Protest; Back to the Moon; Death of Film (Continued) and More: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.29.2011 6:04 PM

How 20-Year-Old Katzenberg Memo Changed Disney

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.12.2011 10:14 PM

Bloggers: You Can Still Get $$$ Out of Newspapers

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.9.2011 8:51 PM

Reason Morning Links: Debt-Cutting Super Committee Is Super Stuck, Cook County Pols Call for Pot Decriminalization, Congress Declares War on the Internet

Mike Riggs | 10.28.2011 8:52 AM

Steve Jobs Losing His Zen

Shikha Dalmia | 10.21.2011 11:22 AM

Uppity Young Geek Steals Legitimately Downloads Millions of Documents. Again.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.20.2011 11:05 AM

James K. Pinkerton, on Declaration of Independents: "libertarian polemicists, whether they like it or not, will indeed be kept far from real-world politics and real-world victories"

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 4:29 PM

Wednesday Morning Arts Roundup

Jesse Walker | 6.8.2011 9:37 AM

Forget the Fourth Amendment, Fellas: We're the RIAA

Jesse Walker | 5.19.2011 11:40 AM

A Fashion Crime That Could Get You a Year in Jail

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2011 1:23 PM

The Best Jazz You'll Never Hear

Matt Welch | 4.28.2011 11:33 AM

Copyright Enforcement, Now Featuring Wiretaps!

Brian Doherty | 3.15.2011 6:15 PM

Reason TV: Virginia Postrel on Oscar Glamour, Chris Christie, and Whether J.Lo Could be Obama's Mentor

Reason Staff | 2.25.2011 10:00 AM

Virginia Postrel on Oscar Glamour, Chris Christie, and Whether J.Lo Could be Obama's Mentor

Reason Staff | 2.25.2011 9:00 AM

Reason.tv: Academy Awards Alert! Why You Might Be a Fashion Criminal

Reason Staff | 2.24.2011 12:05 PM

Don't Mention "Urban Homesteading"™

Brian Doherty | 2.19.2011 1:28 PM

Ripping, Mixing, and Burning Twain

Jesse Walker | 1.5.2011 9:45 AM

That Screwy, Ballyhooey Nollywood

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2010 10:48 AM

Your Weekend WikiLeaks News Roundup

Jesse Walker | 12.5.2010 8:55 PM

The Senate Has Its Priorities

Jesse Walker | 11.19.2010 3:32 PM

Why Jean-Luc Godard, Irish ISPs, German Historians and the Pope Won't Join the Kiss Army

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.29.2010 11:41 AM

More from the Hypocrisy Beat

Jesse Walker | 10.7.2010 2:38 PM

Reason Morning Links: Poverty, Pancakes, and Prayer

Jesse Walker | 9.17.2010 8:26 AM

But Still No Cash for the Star Wars Kid

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2010 2:10 PM

Hearing the Wisdom of Galambos, Even if You Don't Own It

Brian Doherty | 8.13.2010 4:32 PM

Some Wednesday Afternoon Reading

Jesse Walker | 8.4.2010 2:27 PM

Intellectual Property: Dying Among Libertarians?

Brian Doherty | 8.2.2010 8:17 PM

They're Takin' Me Down to Huntsville, But I'm Not Gonna Stay

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2010 3:02 PM

Reason Morning Links: From Cambodia to Las Vegas

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2010 7:53 AM

Reason.tv: Cory Doctorow on The War on Kids, Boing Boing, & His Next Novel

Reason Staff | 7.15.2010 12:00 PM

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