I wrote an article back in December about intellectual property becoming one of the big ideological political footballs in ther 21st century and it got a good reception. Time for an update of some recent trends methinks. First of all, numerous posters have recently gone up around Islington claiming that, as you can read in
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QuaequamBlog on 15th Jul 2008 (via theliberati.net)
I have been a pessimist about UK commercial and residential property. Values of commercial property have been falling for months. Commercial rents are weak. There is a substantial overhang of space. Retailers have gone
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JohnRedwood on 12th Jun 2009 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
The concept of property is fundamental to our society, probably to any workable society. Operationally, it is understood by every child above the age of three. Intellectually, it is understood by almost no one. Consider the slogan "property rights vs. human rights." Its rhetorical force comes from the implication that property rights are the rights of property and human rights the rights of humans...
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Samizdata on 30th Nov 2011 (via samizdata.net)
This year, the Intellectual Property Office is joining the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and its members in celebrating the link between intellectual property (IP) and creativity under the theme - Promoting green innovation as the key to a secure future - on World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD), on 26th April.
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PublicTechnology on 20th Apr 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
The large-scale disposal of property from the government's £370bn estate as a means of raising money to reduce the deficit has been ruled out by the coalition's property adviser
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FT on 1st Nov 2010 (via ft.com)
Who has rights over property and why? Chris, Norm, John all weigh in. To respond only to one part of it: Scepticism towards the moral robustness of an affirmative answer to these questions, of property rights resting on an entitlement to the ‘fruits of one’s labour’, may suggest that the real principle at work is, rather, one of
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TimWorstall on 3rd Sep 2009 (via timworstall.com)
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Intellectual Property & Quality, will be giving the opening address at the World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) Sixth Annual Forum on Intellectual property.
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PublicTechnology on 8th Sep 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
I posted the following reply to one of Jeff's postings over on SNP Tactical Voting:There should be a crucial difference between being a Christian owner of a hotel and a Christian owner of a B&B that is effectively your own home.
Utterly wrong. The keyword is not home but property.
In a civilised society, owners of property have the absolute right to determine how their property is used. ...
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FreedomAndWhiskey on 4th Apr 2010 (via freedomandwhisky.blogspot.com)
A new booklet from the UK Intellectual Property Office hopes to help small businesses exploit their intellectual property.
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PublicTechnology on 5th Aug 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
and property is greatly undertaxed compared with other countries. This simply is not true. Property tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. The UK collects 11.9% of total tax revenue from taxes on property. This is the highest in the OECD and some twice the OECD average of 5.8%. It might
Beyond price is never quite the case. Everything can be obtained at a price. What matters is the manner in which the price is paid. In our society it had been agreed that property is not only settled, but property rights are defended by the state and its civil, institutional arrrangements. Property is not supposed to be obtained or defended by fraud or at gunpoint. And if it is, then social and ju...
