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Economic Gridlock – the Invisible Cost of IP Law

smellsofbikes writes "This week's New Yorker magazine has a financial article, 'The Permission Problem,' discussing the hidden cost of patent, trademark and copyright laws. It's a subject anyone here already knows well, but he brings up two interesting points: 1) He uses the term 'tragedy of the anticommons.' Instead of depletion of a shared resource, this describes under-use of hoarded resources: areas that can't be explored because they're encumbered by patent/copyright issues. As he points out, the result of this is an invisible loss: drugs not made, software not written. The loss is impossible to quantify and difficult to see. I like the term 'tragedy of the anticommons' because it encapsulates a long-winded explanation into a pithy, memorable phrase that will stick with people unfamiliar with the topic.

Tragedy in the Theater, a Bit of Drama Around It

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Top Opera: La Boheme

Christian Badea takes the baton as John Copley directs Puccini's ironic romantic tragedy for Covent Garden. With Wookyung Kim as the poet Rodolfo and Alexia Voulgaridou as the tragic seamstress Mimi.

iPhone, Frienemy Mine

As great as the iPhone is, its full potential has yet to be realized, writes Vern Seward. Certain features and functions are nonsensically absent, copy and paste is still nowhere to be found, and Apple sometimes acts like a king in some Greek tragedy when it comes to managing the App Store, he writes. But for every complaint, there's also something to praise.

iPhone, Frienemy Mine

As great as the iPhone is, its full potential has yet to be realized, writes Vern Seward. Certain features and functions are nonsensically absent, copy and paste is still nowhere to be found, and Apple sometimes acts like a king in some Greek tragedy when it comes to managing the App Store, he writes. But for every complaint, there's also something to praise.

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