I copy here some thoughts I posted on two linked threads by Jeffrey Tucker and Stephan Kinsella in November regarding problems with intellectual property , as well as some relevant parts of the comment thread by Stephan and others: My own view has come around to the idea that state-created IP is abusive...
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TokyoTom
on Sun, Dec 20 2009
Filed under: ostrom, evolution, property rights, Jeffrey Tucker, intellectual property, Stephan Kinsella, Avatar
Scarcity can be defined as the ownership of something tangible which necessarily excludes others from using it. Thus, if I own a fork, I exclude others from using it, unless I either give it away or temporarily transfer availability of it to someone else, which in turn means I cannot at that point in...
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Solredime
on Fri, Aug 7 2009
Filed under: regulation, intervention, non-scarcity, intellectual property, monopoly rights, IP, copyright, copyleft, creative commons, scarcity
From The Sydney Morning Herald : Babies with a severe form of epilepsy risk having their diagnosis delayed and their treatment compromised because of a company's patent on a key gene. It is the first evidence that private intellectual property rights over human DNA are adversely affecting medical...
I recently had a debate with a friend of mine regarding intellectual property. I took the position that intellectual property is not actually property, and that it should not be protected by law. He took the opposite position, at least with regard to the utility of intellectual property laws themselves...
Or a frightful thought - corporations cooperating with greenies to advance shared goals? By sharing patents for free in order to clean up the environment and limit environmental footprints, are corporations being co-opted by socialists? What corporations in their right minds would do such a thing - give...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 3 2008
Filed under: commons, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, CSR, intellectual property, patents