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The Money Transmission Act that was passed in California will take hold in 50 days, legislation that was designed to kill innovation.

(Johanna Blakley at TEDxUSC 2010) Fashion, along with other "low-IP" markets like perfumes, comedy, food, furniture, and magic, is generally unencumbered by patents and copyrights. All of these industries enjoy perpetually rapid innovation, and their gross sales tend to dwarf "high-IP" markets. Maybe it's time to rethink supporting monopoly protection within *your* industry.

Anyone proponent of copyright, trademark or patents don't understand that it can not be done unless one kills all innovation. And no I do not call it intellectual property, the laws are civil laws and intellectual property is a newspeak expression invented by the big-media in order to for them to be able to claim theft when there is none.

The Japanese Are Once Again Needlessly Innovating And It’s Awesome

I love Japanese scientists and inventors. They needlessly innovate in areas that we all thought were done with innovation years ago. The toilet? They made it better. The shower? They made it better. I think I’m starting to see a trend here and today’s innovation continues that trend in bathroom ingenuity.

Non-profit with the vision of establishing permanent settlements on the ocean. In opening a new frontier, we hope to revolutionize the quality of government worldwide by enabling experimentation, innovation, and competition among governments.

Milton Friedman's son David Friedman launched this project. Perhaps, you can report about it and then present the FSP as an alternative. The quality of living is probably not that god on a float.

In a bill passed earlier today, the Government of New Zealand announced that software in the country will no longer be patentable. New Zealand’s largest IT representative body, the Institute of IT Professionals, expressed relief and said the decision removed a major barrier to software-led innovation.

Honorable mentions go to New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission for driving out Uber’s online taxi-hailing service and to automobile dealers’ groups in four states for trying to have Tesla dealerships declared illegal. But the grand prize in this week’s unexpectedly heated competition for most creative use of government to stifle innovation has to go to Minnesota.

Khan Academy, with Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTube and elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Khan's playlist of 1,630 tutorials (at last count) are now seen an average of 70,000 times a day -- nearly double the student body at Harvard and Stanford combined. Since he began his tutorials in late 2006, Khan Academy has received 18 million page views worldwide.

Websites that link to pirated music and movies or sell counterfeit goods could soon be blocked in America.