#monopolies — Public Fediverse posts
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism -
"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism -
"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism -
"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism -
"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
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Yon blue skiers, sky blowers, sky bluers, blowskies, Blue Sky groupies: https://bsky.app/profile/mxverda.bsky.social/post/3mvcjkhiauk2z
#BlueSky #Youtube #POSSE #indie #web #internet #tinternet #online #you #video #videos #VideoEssay #VideoEssayist #VideoEssayists #CrossPost #fandom #critique #shit #enshittification #capitalism #crapitalism #google #googletube #yougle #yoogle #tech #BigTech #monopoly #monopolies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkN8DUpn9E
A deep dive into 'the financials' & concerns about the pending merger of Paramount and Warner. Global Implications for #media, #movies, #monopolies, #politics & #CNN
> A judge just froze Paramount’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery for 14 days. California and 11 other states argue the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would reduce competition in theatrical films, major blockbusters, and basic cable programming.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bb-5Kw30yaQ?is=8lTsmc-ucwPdBfnv
#LizOyer #OyerLawyer #ToddBlanche #DOJ #ConsumerProtection #Law #Justice #Politics #USA #tRump #Republicans #GOP #Congress #Activism #Protest #Election #Vote #Corruption #Grift #Lobbyists #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #EatTheRich #Senate #Cronyism #Mergers #Maga #Affordability #AntiTrust #Monopolies #Enforcement #MikeDavis #RealEstate #Investigations #Tax #Corporate #Prices
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NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!
In all seriousness, this is a landmark ruling.
“The jury deliberated for four days before deciding that the company operated as a monopoly that broke antitrust laws.”
“An exact punishment has yet to be meted out, but the consequences could range from heavy monetary damages to possibly breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It’s also likely that Live Nation will appeal the verdict, meaning the case could continue for several more years.”
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It's about DAMN time.
Here's a gift link to the article (no paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/ticketmaster-ftc-suit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.x4bM.nA9AXNLOHnjs&smid=url-share https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/business-day-gmdkn5fhz/-/a-IsnP-poqTFSc-28G8QQknw%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0