Episode 93 - Trademark law, protection rackets, marketplace checks on fraud

Goldman Sachs seeks Goldman sucks site suit by Austin Modine http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/10/goldman_sucks_site_suit/ further reading...Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=7047 and...Wallstrip - Goldman Sachs (GS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyl46aaSWnE Peter McCandless interview with Daniel Lakemacher - 11/07/2009: Hrs. 1,2,3 (from http://www.petermacshow.com/show-archive.html) http://www.petermacshow.com/mp3/PeterMacShow20091107a.mp3 http://www.petermacshow.com/mp3/PeterMacShow20091107b.mp3 http://www.petermacshow.com/mp3/PeterMacShow20091107c.mp3 and Larken Rose interviews Satan http://www.petermacshow.com/show-archive/55-halloween-larken-rose-a-satan-hr-1.html http://www.petermacshow.com/show-archive/56-halloween-larken-rose-a-satan-hr-2.html http://www.petermacshow.com/show-archive/57-halloween-larken-rose-a-satan-hr-3.html Maintaining a trademark registration - http://www.uspto.gov/faq/t120052.jsp further reading...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark Legal Questions : What Does a Trademark Protect? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tl8r1paHw "Trademark rights" are in the land of the arbitrary, i.e., they are contradictory Trademark blog - http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?limit=&chunk=0&topic=Trademark Trademark Ain't So Hot Either... by Stephen Kinsella http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=836 If governmental services are so important and valuable to people, then why do they have to be forcibly imposed and funded? "Public goods" and "free rider" arguments are fallacious, being based on a coercive and collectivistic (i.e., non-property rights) framework Trademark "law" doesn't really deal with the main issue of customers being defrauded Trademark and Fraud by Stephan Kinsella http://blog.mises.org/archives/007409.asp Against Libertarian Legalism: A comment on Kinsella and Block by Frank van Dun http://mises.org/journals/jls/17_3/17_3_4.pdf Reply To Van Dun: Non-Aggression And Title Transfer by N. Stephan Kinsella http://mises.org/journals/jls/18_2/18_2_3.pdf People with the same name don't sue each other, unless they're trying to use each other's property, so why do identical trademark holders? Trademark "law" is really about excluding competition in the marketplace Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ by Nik Cubrilovic http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/facebook-sues-german-social-network-studivz/ Adobe Target FreshAIRapps Officially Moves to a New Home by Paul Glazowski http://mashable.com/2008/07/20/adobe-refreshingapps/ Apple wins copyright infringement case against Psystar in California by Nilay Patel http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/14/apple-wins-copyright-infringement-case-against-psystar-in-califo/ Slashdot Apple Story | Psystar Crushed In Court http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/14/1954259/Psystar-Crushed-In-Court Think of a new name for iPodderX http://www.tuaw.com/2005/11/29/think-of-a-new-name-for-ipodderx/ Customer preferences in the marketplace place a check on company naming confusion and encourage differentiation Government and various IP laws are merely a bunch of protection rackets, gaining an unfair advantage through the initiation of force Monster Cable's Monstrous Abuse of Trademark Law http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000803 The Scariest Monster of All Sues for Trademark Infringement by Steve Stecklow http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123869022704882969.html Trademark lawyers are out of their mind by Christian Zimmermann http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000663 Perhaps the biggest barrier to the dissolution of "government" in general and "IP laws" in particular is people's projection of fears from having no "authority" ruling over your/their decisions Train Operators Around The World Stopping Others From Helping Riders... Due To Intellectual Property by Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090326/1211254264.shtml TOSBack | GoDaddy Trademark and/or Copyright Infringement Policy http://www.tosback.org/diff.php?vid=954 Hypocritical Apple (Trademark) by Stephan Kinsella http://blog.mises.org/archives/006131.asp Complete Liberty IP Chapter: http://completeliberty.com/chapter6.php audio version: http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208107 Caveat emptor (buyer beware) tends to bolster responsible choices - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor But instances of fraud can be made known quickly in a marketplace with Internet technologies http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/fraud.html further viewing...Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google discusses Intellectual Property - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi3Q40EPUjk interesting admission..."From a Google perspective, intellectual property rights are fundamental to how we operate...so the company wouldn't exist without basic intellectual property rights." 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