The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property rights, free markets, competition, commerce, cooperation, and the voluntary sharing of knowledge, and oppose laws that systematically impede or hamper innovation, especially those enforced in the name of defending “intellectual property,” such as patent and copyright; these should be radically reformed or entirely abolished.
We provide news commentary and analysis and scholarly resources from our unique pro-property, pro-market, pro-innovation perspective. The Center is the publisher of the online scholarly journal Libertarian Papers.
- What3words Is A Clever Way Of Communicating Position Very Simply, But Do We Really Want To Create A Monopoly For Location Look-ups?
- Why Is MLB Claiming Revenue From Obviously Fair Use Videos On YouTube?
- China (Yes, China) Complains About Attack On Its 'Free Speech Rights' After Twitter/Facebook Boot Propaganda Accounts
- State Rep Tries To Bring Criminal Harassment Charges Against Journalists For Being Journalists
- The Barlowian Internet: The Faults Of The Internet Are Also Its Opportunity, But It's Up To Us To Embrace Them
- Daily Deal: The Python Power Coder BONUS Bundle
- North Carolina Appeals Court's Second Take On Retaliatory Arrests Just As Bad As Its First One
- Facebook's Weird Pointless Auditless Audit Of Political Bias On Its Platform
- NY Investigates Frontier Communications As US Telcos Slowly Implode
- Cracks Showing In Epic Store's PR War As Developers Have To Plead With Public To Not Harass Them
- Health Circumstances Demand a Longer, Deeper Timeout
- Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Cash roadmap, and the Law of Two Feet
- Pirate Party enters parliament in Luxembourg, gets 17% in Prague
- Analog Equivalent Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment
- Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever
- Analog Equivalent Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
- Analog Equivalent Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home
- Analog Equivalent Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries
- Analog Equivalent Rights (16/21): Retroactive surveillance of all our children
- Analog Equivalent Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis
Follow Us!