Comments on: Against Intellectual Property

By: Andrew Torrance: Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts

Andrew Torrance: Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:57:13 +0000

[...] of IP laws are subtracted from the “benefits” to determine whether such laws are a net benefit.[40] But not all values have a market price; in fact, none of them do. Mises showed that even for goods [...]

By: Are Intellectual Property Rights Wrong? « Adding To The Noise

Are Intellectual Property Rights Wrong? « Adding To The Noise — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:48:12 +0000

[...] Intellectual property is not scarce like physical property such as a car or house or land. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” If someone copies a book you have written, you still have the original book. If you take a car, the owner no longer has it. Even Ayn Rand said, “intellectual property cannot be consumed.” Should we be protecting all this on the Internet or allow people to use it freely as long as they give credit to the original source? [...]

By: "Against Intellectual Property": Audiobook Version | Austrian Economics Blog

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:04:17 +0000

[...] of my monograph Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008; Mises Store; PDF; Scribd; HTML) has been prepared. The narrator is Jock Coats, who produced a very impressive, [...]