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.
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- North Carolina Election Agencies First Learned They'd Been Hacked From Leaked Documents Published By The Intercept
- Palantir's Law Enforcement Data Stranglehold Isn't Good For Police Or The Policed
- Former FCC Commissioner Tries To Claim Net Neutrality Has Aided The Rise Of White Supremacy
- Daily Deal: Raspberry Pi Mastery Bundle
- Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Politicians For Selling You Out On Net Neutrality
- Aspiring Actor Forges Court Order To Delist Content, Gets Busted By Judge, Forges Court Order To Delist Article About Contempt Charges
- FOIA Lawsuit Filed Over DOJ Data Complainant Is Pretty Sure Doesn't Even Exist
- As A Streaming Future Looms, ESPN Is Damned If It Does, Damned If It Doesn't
- Once Again, Rather Than Deleting Terrorist Propaganda, YouTube Deletes Evidence Of War Crimes
- Right on the Money: Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry point six years ago
- Why politicians don’t, and can’t, understand the Internet
- Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities
- Is it prudent to ask if Britain’s nuke subs, which also run Windows XP, have also been hit by ransomware?
- The six worst hypocrisies of the copyright industry in the last decade
- De-spamming service “Unroll” selling your inbox to Uber shows the importance of information hygiene, yet again
- Blockstream having patents in Segwit makes all the weird pieces of the last three years fall perfectly into place
- Bitcoin’s Unlimited Potential Lies in an Apolitical Core
- What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention
- With laptops banned onboard aircraft, your data is no longer yours if you fly
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