Disney to buy Marvel Comics for $4B. Disney “will acquire ownership more than 5,000 Marvel characters.” The most popular ones, such as Spider-Man (who used to be my favorite until he swooned over Obama, revealing his fascist mindset), are not that old–Spider-Man was created in 1962. One can only imagine the Disney lobbying that we can expect when Spider-Man’s term nears expiration…
[Against Monopoly cross-post]
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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couldnt agree more