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Patent Attorney On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property
Techdirt called our attention to an interesting video of patent attorney Stephan Kinsella's presentation on 'Rethinking Intellectual Property Completely.' It's a long presentation, but well worth the time to watch. There is also an ongoing series of posts discussing intellectual property rights on Techdirt for additional reading.
"Most people who innovate don't do it for free; they do it because they need to feed their families and might even hope to strike it big."
So - you're saying that NO drug manufacturer ever had a family member or good friend die of cancer?
Feeding your family is easy - get a job at Pizza Hut - so that leaves 'striking it rich' as the ONLY motivation for any innovation, at least in your mind. Right?
His arguments come not from a desire to promote innovation or practical concerns, but rather are rooted in disdain for democratic government.
Among other gems, he insists that there is no right to free speech, but only a right to property from which a right to speech derives. With a straight face he tells us that speech is a right which belongs only to those who own property. Elitist douchebag.
Too busy staying alive... ~ R.A.
You're willfully misreading my words in order to insinuate that I would support loyalty oaths. This will be the last reply I write to you as I regard you to be dishonest.
What's elitist is the claim that there is no right to free speech seperate from ownership of property. The idea of public property an an open forum is important to me. What makes the first amendment important is its implications to public property. Mr. Kinsella is totally against the concept of public property. "What I am getting at is that the state does own many resources, even if (as I and other anarcho-libertarians believe) the state has no natural or moral right to own these things," he writes.
See http://www.lewrockwell.com/kinsella/kinsella18.html
In Mr. Kinsella's ideal world, all property is private. Everywhere you go, you do so at the pleasure of a property owner. Everything you say or do while there is dependant upon remaining in his good graces.
What is monarchy but anarcho-libertarianism with a single property owner? That's why I say he's an elitist.
Too busy staying alive... ~ R.A.