Preston Byrne has been doing superb work trying to help protect US-based tech platforms from foreign regulators that want to kill off freedo...

The tabs! Universities continue to be very quick to cancel events.   NZ Pharmacists warn that if the $5 co-pay on prescriptions returns, cus...

The morning's worthies: NZ alcohol policy basically gives a veto over licensing to the Medical Officer of Health and to the Police. Suck...

Ages ago, I met an odd sort of copyright maximalist. The guy figured that ideas themselves should be treated as intellectual property, not j...

We have too many tabs open here at the Crampton Discount Browser Tab Warehouse, and we have to liquidate stock immediately. All the links yo...

Oh the tabs.  Chris Quin is CE of Foodstuffs North Island. His chat with Morning Report on what they've been doing to get groceries thro...

A closing of some of the browser tabs: Eli Dourado on NEPA - America's equivalent to the RMA . Superb seeming primer on how it all works...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

A closing of some the browser tabs brings a few worthies: Roland Fryer Was Railroaded Brian Easton on the perils of ignoring economics Pay f...

The closing of the browser tabs: The Niskanen Center goes through the problems with intellectual property . They remind that independent re-...

Under sane versions of copyright, it was considered homage. Musicians would grab snippets of each others' work and play with them, build...

The day's worthies: The complicated mess of regulations that make it hard for supply chains to keep up. Pentecostalism . According to th...

The browser tabs... The Internet Archive will help improve access to a lot of books currently held by the National Library . Naturally, this...

Appellation d'origine contrôlée rules make some kind of sense when they prevent what might otherwise amount to false advertising becaus...

The worthies on the closing of the browser tabs. Nice comparison of vacant housing to transitional unemployment, in an American context.  ...

Posting has been light as other deadlines press. But I have accumulated too many browser tabs. Here are some worthies: Colby Cosh on the c...

If you don't have access to a university library, give Sci-Hub a shot. It's not quite Napster for academic papers, but it's c...

I think it's fair to say that Brian Easton sits to the left of the NZ economist punditsphere, and that Mike Reddell sits to the right of...

My Tuesday night chat with Bryan Crump at RadioNZ's Nights covered copyright and the digital world. The content will be familiar to rea...

A few points on the threatened Netflix crackdown on geounblocking: Whether Netflix turns a blind eye to geounblockers is a matter for them...