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  • Movies without Intellectual Property

    I understand the whole argument about property not being abstract, therefore invalidating the notion of "intellectual property." But on a strictly utilitarian viewpoint, What do you make of movie producers that spend millions to make good quality products (i.e. movies)? How would they make...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Pierre-Alexandre Crevaux on Sun, Jan 29 2012
  • Concise Summary of Kinsella's Anti-IP Position

    I'm researching an article on intellectual property. Is this a fair summary of Kinsella's argument against IP: Intellectual property can be copied without damaging the original, so it is not scarce. Scarcity of physical goods necessitates property rights in the first place, thus IP cannot legitimately...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Drab Thor on Thu, May 12 2011
  • Re: Two arguments in favor of IP

    [quote user="Eugene"]The point is that homesteading is also a process of creation. You gain ownership over a resource if you manage to make something useful out of it . Intellectual work is another form of creation, and I believe property rights should encompass intellectual creation as well...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by John James on Sun, Apr 10 2011
  • Land is Intellectual Property

    Land claims are an example of intellectual property. [quote] Intellectual property ( IP ) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law . [ 1 ] While these rights are not actually...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by dude6935 on Tue, Feb 22 2011
  • Are there any holes in this argument for intellectual property?

    So I am honestly looking for holes in my reasoning, I want to be persuaded if I am wrong. Does anyone see anything wrong with my conclusions? I am concerned with rights/justice. I am convinced that property rights are economically costly. If my question is redundant can you please point me in the direction...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by f007scott on Tue, Feb 8 2011
  • Property is theft?

    There's a question that's been bugging me about libertarian property rights theory for some time now, and I couldn't quite figure out how to formulate it until yesterday when I was reading Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property." Kinsella says, [W]hat is the harm in. . .recognizing...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Richard Marmorstein on Sun, Jun 27 2010
  • Podcast: Stephan Kinsella answers questions about intellectual property

    The Freedomain Radio Book Club had a great discussion with Stephan about intellectual property which I thought you might enjoy... FDR1616 Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property from Freedomain Radio Posted: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT Play Now Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by FreedomainRadio on Sun, Mar 21 2010
  • Possible IP Refutation

    "A thing rendering such unlimited services is, for instance, the knowledge of the causal relation implied. The formula, the recipe that teaches us how to prepare coffee, provided it is known, renders unlimited services. It does not lose anything from its capacity to produce however often it is used;...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Ryan on Thu, Jan 21 2010
  • A question regarding contracts and intellectual property...

    I've been reading about the idea that something similar to intellectual property could be recreated through contracts. In other words, by putting a copyright notice on something, you're saying that the purchaser can do what they want with the item, except copy it. This is, I believe, accepted...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by britainland on Sat, Sep 19 2009
  • Re: Intellectual Property Rights?

    [quote user="tonyfernandez"] My question is, if it is okay for physical property, why is it not okay for intellectual property? Maybe we have to compromise and say that for someone to get into the industry they must either buy the idea from the company or they must come up with it themselves...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Charles Anthony on Mon, Apr 20 2009
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