Your noontime revolutionary propaganda: http://margins.fair-use.org/note/The_People_Eats_the_King_(etching) “The People Eats the King,” 1793, from Révolutions de Paris.

From Jesse Walker: http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/01/free-sherlock-homes Of course nothing at all should be copyrightable under any circumstances, but Jesse’s post stakes out an interesting neighborhood of logical space to argue about. “Posts like this tend to set off debates in the comments about whether copyright laws should exist at all, but let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that they should. Can anyone give me a good reason for applying copyright to a character, as opposed to a story about that character? It shouldn’t be difficult for the fans of, say, Star Wars to tell which stories about Han Solo have George Lucas’ input or blessing and which ones do not. Why shouldn’t you have the legal right to circulate your own Han Solo films or novels on more than a semi-clandestine amateur basis without asking permission first, competing head to head with Disney to see who can tell the better stories about the characters and settings that Lucas invented? I can see why Disney’s shareholders wouldn’t like that, but why should their preferences be law? . . .”

Full issue page-scans of Volume V of THE LIBERATOR now online at Fair Use Repository. http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/ Official announcement coming soonish. If you want to support this project donations to a fund earmarked for fair-use.org projects can be made through the Molinari Institute; details here: http://fair-use.org/donate/

Scans of Volume V of the Liberator (1835) completed. Uploading now; should be available from Fair Use Repository in a bit.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/sequestration-cuts-navy-cocaine-united-states Via Mother Jones: “More Cocaine Could Soon Be on Our Streets [sic], Thanks to the Sequester.” Well, good. This is the second best thing I’ve heard so far about the sequester (after the announcement that it would force the government to release several hundred innocent immigrants from ICE detention and to furlough 60,000 “border security” [sic] workers starting in April). Everything about the government’s insanely costly, structurally racist and utterly irredeemable War on Drugs is destructive and wrong and everything that the United States Navy does to fight it should be shut down immediately by any means available. (Bizarrely, Mother Jones, which has in the past repeatedly run exposes of the Drug War’s bankruptcy, destructiveness, racism, and assault on civil liberties, posted this story in a bizarre attempt to pass this unusual break of good news off as if it were somehow supposed to be a *bad* thing about the sequester.)

is scanning Volume V (1835) of Garrison’s THE LIBERATOR

To-day @ Fair Use Repository : “Ross Winn’s ‘Radical Reflections’ column from FREE SOCIETY, Vol. IX No. 11 (March 16, 1902), on a different kind of ‘propaganda by deed.'” http://fair-use.org/free-society/1902/03/16/radical-reflections “Page scans now up for the entire issue of FREE SOCIETY are also now up:” http://fair-use.org/free-society/issue/353

You know what the worst part about John Brennan becoming Director of the CIA would be? The part about having a CIA, for anyone to direct. Seriously, that needs to be abolished, and anyone who’s ever nominated for running it ought to be blocked.

Las Vegas cab drivers on strike against Yellow Checker Star

To-day at the Fair Use Repository: Volumes III (1833) and IV (1834) of William Lloyd Garrison’s THE LIBERATOR are now available in facsimile PDFs. http://blog.fair-use.org/2013/03/04/liberator-vols-3-4-now-available/