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Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood
techdirt.com 6 days, 15 hours agoEver wonder how many of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA? Well, in the newly proposed Homeland Security Appropriations Bill , just introduced in the Senate by Mary Landrieu, the federal government would like to set aside the following for the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) unit that is in charge of being Hollywood's private law enforcement wing: Provided further, That not less than $10,00
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The Idea That Women Need More Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks Shows Up In Newly Proposed Law
techdirt.com 1 day, 4 hours agoLast month, we reported on some silly research that suggested the economy would grow massively if we could just convince women to get more patents. The whole thing was based on some fundamentally silly assumptions related to thinking that patents are a proxy for either innovation or economic growth. They are not. Plenty of studies have shown no link between patents and actual innovation -- and lots of other studies have shown that patents seem to be costing the economy a lot more than helping it. Unfortunat
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