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- 2009
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David Crockett
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Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader , compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.
Mises Daily
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Stephan Kinsella
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Like many libertarians, I initially assumed intellectual property (IP) was a legitimate type of property right. But I had misgivings from the start: there was just something too utilitarian and results oriented in Rand’s purportedly principled case for IP, and something too artificial about the state’s copyright and patent statutory
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Stephan Kinsella
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“Calls for abolition of the patent system — especially those coming from a principled, rights-based approach — are very unlikely to be adopted at the present time.” [This paper is the first of a two-part series. The concluding article is “ Reducing the Cost of IP Law “] Hardly a day passes when we do not hear of one patent abuse or another. [1]
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Stephan Kinsella
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[This article is based on a speech delivered at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio ; video ).] Most libertarians find some areas of libertarian theory more interesting than others. My own passion has always been rights theory and related areas, such as the theory of contracts, causation, and punishment. [1] Intellectual property (IP),
Mises Daily
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Ninos P. Malek
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“He wants to serve food and earn tips and why can’t he?” So argues Martin A. Shellist, attorney for Nikolai Grushevski, a citizen of Corpus Christi, Texas, who filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit after Hooters denied him a job as a server at the chain restaurant. A similar case in 1997 resulted in Hooters paying out a $3.75 million settlement
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Michele Boldrin
David K. Levine
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[Excerpt from “Chapter 1: Introduction” in Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. Copyright © 2008 Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Additional information may be obtained here. ] In late 1764, while repairing a small Newcomen steam engine, the idea of
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Daniel Krawisz
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Intellectual property is the principle that the creator of an idea has a right to certain controls over all the physical forms in which his idea is recorded. The extent of this control may be different depending on whether the idea is considered copyrighted, patented, or trademarked, but the essential principle is the same in all cases. [1] This
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Matt Summers
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In the opening lines of Book Two in Aristotle’s Politics , Aristotle ponders, out of all of the political arrangements, “which is the best for all those able to lead an ideal life?” (1260 b 25). [1] His inquiry leads him to a starting point, the realization that citizens of any city must share some things while keeping others private. His quest to
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Hardy Bouillon
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[From Property, Freedom and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe .] I met Hans-Hermann Hoppe in 1991, I believe. Dissatisfied with inconsistencies in Hayek’s concept of individual freedom, I was looking for an assessment that (at least) tried to avoid these inconsistencies. Hoppe’s approach was and still is a representative of this rare