Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas company was recently allowed to claim a patent on basmati rice, a kind of rice grown in India for hundreds of years. The Mining Act of 1872 is still in effect, allowing companies to buy land from the US government at $5 acre if they plan to mine it. These are resources that belong to American citizens, yet they are being given away to companies with anything but the common interest in mind. Where wasthe public outcry, or the...
Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Ed...
They hang the man and flog the woman that steal the goose from off the common, but let the greater villain loose that steals the common from the goose - so go the words of a traditional nursery rhyme. Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v.Wade and Brown v Board of Education. A Texas company was recently allowed to claim a patent on basmati rice, a kind of rice grown in India for hundreds of years. The Mining Act of 1872 is still in effect, allowing companies to buy land from the government at $5 per acre if they...
They hang the man and flog the woman that steal the goose from off the common, but let the greater villain loose that steals the common from the goose...
An impassioned, darkly amusing look at how corporations misuse copyright law to stifle creativity and free speech If you want to make fun of Mickey or Barbie on your Web site, you may be hearing from some corporate lawyers. You should also think twice about calling something ""fair and balanced"" or publicly using Martin Luther King Jr.'s ""I Have a Dream"" speech. It may be illegal. Or it may be entirely legal, but the distinction doesn't matter if you can't afford a lawyer. More and more, corporations are grabbing and asserting rights over every idea and creation in our world,...
An impassioned, darkly amusing look at how corporations misuse copyright law to stifle creativity and free speech If you want to make fun of Micke...
The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It...
The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaini...
From the time it was uttered by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, -There is no alternative- has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order. The illusion of inevitability has long been a bulwark of late capitalism, leaving us unable to imagine anything beyond its crises and inequalities. But as Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world--and not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics, and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics...
From the time it was uttered by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, -There is no alternative- has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order. The ...
