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Re: [ox-en] Re: scientific lockdown by publishers

Michel Bauwens wrote:

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Actually, there are many many people working on this, and great progress is
being made, but of course the majority of researchers are not doing it, also
because doing it on a individual basis is a high treshold activity,
The final version of Levine and Boldrin's book on 'IP' (which they call 'intellectual monopoly') has been made available as a pdf (it's not out in print till the summer, IIRC) 

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
(they are marginalist economists who are against patents, claiming they are unnecessary even within capitalism as it is. It's not at all an oekonux-like argument, but I think it's interesting as there are so few people around with specific arguments about patents, and not just copyright). 

Graham
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