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Originally Posted by heikstheo";p="
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Originally Posted by Force-of-the-Truth";p="
I think that "intellectual property" is a contradiction in terms and therefore I don't view patent laws as legitimate.
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Why is intellectual property illegitimate? Shouldn't the inventor of a technology or the author of a book have every right to the fruit of his or her labor power? |
Well, all products, whether recognized as inventions or not, have ideas that go into their creation. The decision of which are the most important should be left to consumers, a decision that intellectual property laws, providing as they do special protection to certain ideas at the expense of others, interfere with. Patent offices should therefore be privatized and protection for ideas kept strictly in accordance with demand for ideas. All products are protected by physical property laws anyway. I'm something of an extremist on this issue, I know, but I tend to hold radical views in a number of directions.