http://www.stephankinsella.com Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/comment-page-1/#comment-41113 Are Intellectual Property Rights Wrong? « Adding To The Noise Mon, 10 May 2010 11:48:12 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?page_id=1559#comment-41113 [...] 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? [...] [...] 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? [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/comment-page-1/#comment-21613 "Against Intellectual Property": Audiobook Version | Austrian Economics Blog Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:04:17 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?page_id=1559#comment-21613 [...] 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, [...] [...] 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, [...]

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