Curt Doolittle

Theme: Property

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546014034 Timestamp) IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”— Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses: –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series. …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—- To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546014034 Timestamp) IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”— Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses: –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series. …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—- To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546651141 Timestamp) UPDATE ON SHRUNKEN HEAD MARKET VALUE In 1919 shrunken heads were worth around $4.00, the equivalent of $57.33. Then in the 1930’s victim heads were made to order for around $25.00, which is around $275.02 in today’s economy. By 1952 a head was advertised in The Times for $250, which would be $2,231.36 now. Shrunken heads are a light, high value, commodity money substitute. 😉

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546651141 Timestamp) UPDATE ON SHRUNKEN HEAD MARKET VALUE In 1919 shrunken heads were worth around $4.00, the equivalent of $57.33. Then in the 1930’s victim heads were made to order for around $25.00, which is around $275.02 in today’s economy. By 1952 a head was advertised in The Times for $250, which would be $2,231.36 now. Shrunken heads are a light, high value, commodity money substitute. 😉

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546961670 Timestamp) YES, PROPERTARIANISM SOLVES THE SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM. —-“I just realized that Propertarianism solves the problem of sustainability. A propertarian society would prevent over-consumption of resources since to do so would be parasitic upon future generations (and/or on neighbouring states/groups). You’ve done it. Solved a major problem in ecology.”— Alba Rising

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546894798 Timestamp) by William Douglas Watson Since people are willing fight for religious beliefs (defend), they are considered property in toto. That means they should not be infringed upon if they are compatible with the rest of civilization. Curt has no interest in hindering our right to practice our religion, only in hindering the use of ANY METHOD to perform or advocate for theft (parasitism). He hasn’t always done a good job of making this clear (recently he has been trying to clarify) but that is not his job. His job is to write law. Our job is to make the law digestible for others. In a propertarian society we would have much greater religious freedom to actually live out our faith. Real freedom of association (positiva) would be restored because we would have freedom to disassociate (negativa). So, as an example, you could no longer be forced to bake cakes that advocated for “alternative lifestyles”. This is just a quick example of a current hot button issue but if you give it some thought I’m sure that you could find many other examples where we, as Christians, would benefit from the restoration of just this one aspect of natural law. (cd: approved)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546961670 Timestamp) YES, PROPERTARIANISM SOLVES THE SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM. —-“I just realized that Propertarianism solves the problem of sustainability. A propertarian society would prevent over-consumption of resources since to do so would be parasitic upon future generations (and/or on neighbouring states/groups). You’ve done it. Solved a major problem in ecology.”— Alba Rising

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546894798 Timestamp) by William Douglas Watson Since people are willing fight for religious beliefs (defend), they are considered property in toto. That means they should not be infringed upon if they are compatible with the rest of civilization. Curt has no interest in hindering our right to practice our religion, only in hindering the use of ANY METHOD to perform or advocate for theft (parasitism). He hasn’t always done a good job of making this clear (recently he has been trying to clarify) but that is not his job. His job is to write law. Our job is to make the law digestible for others. In a propertarian society we would have much greater religious freedom to actually live out our faith. Real freedom of association (positiva) would be restored because we would have freedom to disassociate (negativa). So, as an example, you could no longer be forced to bake cakes that advocated for “alternative lifestyles”. This is just a quick example of a current hot button issue but if you give it some thought I’m sure that you could find many other examples where we, as Christians, would benefit from the restoration of just this one aspect of natural law. (cd: approved)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1547131714 Timestamp) QUESTIONS: FREE MARKET VS RECIPROCAL CAPITALISM by ‎Noah J Revoy‎ Let’s compare the trope “Free Markets” of Free Market Capitalism with “Reciprocal Markets”, of Reciprocal Market Capitalism. Or stated differently, lets compare the IDEAL good of free markets regardless of externality – particularly knowledge, fixed, cultural, and genetic capital, with the MEASURED good of reciprocal markets under rule of law that prohibits the consumption privatization, or destruction, of such precious capital. QUESTIONS: 1. How would you describe the differences between Reciprocal Capitalism as proposed under a propertarianism model and Free Market Capitalism as promoted by libertarians?

    1. What problems does Reciprocal Capitalism solve (vs Free Markets)?

    2. What are the libertarians missing?

    3. How could Reciprocal Capitalism help solve some of the moderate lefts concerns about markets?

    4. Both the left and the right have problems with the current “Free Market Capitalism” as practiced in the west. (Free market is a poor descriptor as its not truly free and often not even a real set of markets).

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1547242782 Timestamp) EVERYTHING ROTHBARD SAYS IS A LIE

    1. Rothbard and Hoppe always start with some artificial moral license to property rather than that property produces a division of labor that is more rewarding than predation (for the able) and is the only reason for the able to cooperate, and the only means of cooperation at scale.

    2. In the Free Rider Problem, the answer is that if you are a free rider you are consuming opportunity and resources that could by replaced by those who DO contribute to the commons that they benefit from. This is in fact what people demonstrably do: outcast free riders.

    3. We inherit the investments of our ancestors we do not free ride upon them because they are ours by inheritance, in exchange for persisting the genes, civilization, culture and investments of those previous generations, just as we hope following generations will preserve ours.

    4. —“must therefore be supplied outside the free market, by the coercive force of the government”– No, it is because it is an unsubstitutable good. There is no restitution for lost life nor substitution for risk of life. NONE.

    … I can’t even continue refuting rothbard because it makes me so angry that we have lost two generations to (((more lies))). EVERYTHING ROTHBARD SAYS IS A (((LIE))) DEFENDED BY A HALF TRUTH, AND APPEAL TO REASONABLENESS. …. EVERYTHING. YES, ….. EVERYTHING. Rothbard is only useful in so far as we can study his excellence at Straw Manning, Undue Praise, Pilpul and Critique, and by that study, understand why we moral men are vulnerable to that category of (((lies))). It’s just lies. ROTHBARD IS JUST (((A LIAR))) THAT SUCKERS MIDDLE CLASS YOUNG MEN, LIKE MARXISM WORKING CLASS MEN, LIKE POSTMODERNISM WOMEN AND NON-MEN. Everything he says is false. Study rothbard to learn how to lie, so that we can end lying to our people.