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Is IP Property?
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent article, Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley argues that intellectual property is not 'property' in the traditional sense. According to Lemley, while 'free riding' off of someone else's land or other physical property rights is always undesirable, freely benefitting from someone else's intellectual property rights is often the best way to form a free and creative society. Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations."
Where is this "free riding" you speak of, and how do I sign up for it?
And how many of my friends need I enroll?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
A professor claiming that IP is not P at all. And it turns out, businessmen think IP is P. Each side tries to argue their own interest and they happen to be in conflict. Seems like a wash. But one profession is a drain on the economy and does not function to produce a product and the other does. I think I'll continue to side with the people that create jobs and wealth.
Who owns your thoughts? I certainly hope I do, and that I have full rights to them, and who knows them. I hope they are very protected by the law.
Do you really want the government to say that your thoughts MUST be shared with someone else? That sounds almost like a form of Mind control/Mind reading.
Sorry, count me out.
Ted Tschopp
Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
is an atm machine a machine?
-knowles
troll?! it was a fucking joke. the link in the post I replied to was the AvP poster adapted to Bush vs Kerry.