The Power of Technology and D.I.Y. Against the War on Kids (Video)

Cory Doctorow, co-founding editor at Boing Boing and author spoke with Reason editor Nick Gillespie on the prejudice against children, the impact of offering his books for free and the obsolescence of creative monopoly (5:26):

Optimal Education Requires ‘Opening the Source’

Miles Berry’s ‘provocation paper’ for the recent Open Source Schools think tank on open source education. (h/t: Michael Bauwens)

Charles Johnson: ‘The Revolution Will Be Made Of People: Anarchy, Direct Action and Free Market Social Justice’ (Video)

via Charles “Rad Geek” Johnson’s blog: Freedom is not a conservative idea. It is not a prop for corporate power and the political-economic statist quo. Libertarianism is, in fact, a revolutionary doctrine, which would undermine and overthrow every form of state coercion and authoritarian control. If we want liberty in our lifetimes, the realities of our politics need to live up to the promise our principles—we should be radicals, not reformists; anarchists, not smaller-governmentalists; defenders of real freed markets and private property, not apologists for corporate capitalism, halfway privatization or existing concentrations of wealth. Libertarianism should be a people’s movement and a liberation movement, and we should take our cues not from what’s politically polite, but from what works for a revolutionary people-power movement. Here’s how:

Part One (10:00):

Mutualism: An Interview With Kevin Carson

The Isocracy Network interviews Mr. Carson on the theory and practice of mutualism, worker self-management, anarchist thinkers and his critics.

The CopyNazi’s Modern Day Protectionism

Vedad Krehic on ‘intellectual property’ at LewRockwell.com (LRC): How copyright has turned the record labels, software writers and film studios against their own customers.

Should You Give Away Your Precious IP?

Jeff Tucker on grasping onto one’s ‘intellectual property’.

Copyright Communism?

Kevin Carson on intellectual property [sic] and Bill Gates’ view of the freed market as ‘communist’.

Intellectual Property — A Libertarian Critique

In this study, Kevin Carson reviews libertarian perspectives on “intellectual property”; the ethics of the practice itself and the harms resulting from it.

The Copyright Nazis’ Latest Venue: Newspapers

Kevin Carson on the ‘Copyright Nazi’ of the week, Rupert Murdoch’s latst threat to charge for internet content of News Corp. publications.

IP Crimes and Vices

Jeff Tucker on the vice, not crime, of plagarism.

Leonard Read’s Open-Source Vision

Jeff Tucker on the libertarian giant vs. copyright.

Patents Kill — Literally

Jeff Tucker on Big Pharma, the FDA, and ‘IP’.

The Hoax of Invention History

Jeff Tucker on the truth about the Wright Brothers, Marconi, and other wrongdoers.

Fallacy Run Amok

Jeff Tucker on the State’s “intellectual property” vs. market competition.