Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by cturner on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:06AM
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“action which produces value exclusive rights...” This does not describe “property in general”. (Also, it is gobbledegook.) The concept of property (excluding ip) is extremely straightforward - control of something scarce. Things called IP are not inherently scarce, and the arguments used to justify it are plainly not the same.
Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by dragonwriter on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:04AM
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> “action which produces value exclusive rights...” This does not describe “property in general”. (Also, it is gobbledegook.)
Yes, in isolation that excerpt which cuts across parts of different phrases from the middle of a sentence is gobbledygook which describes nothing.
Other than being a good illustration of why sentences are meaningful units but arbitrarily selected excerpts from the middle of them are not, I’m not sure what your point is.
That’s not to say I don’t understand the arguments for generally more limited property rights, but I find right-libertarian, generally property-rights-maximalists, arguing against IP to be…well, not actually surprising given that that faction generally has a fairly arbitrary deontological [0] conception of property rights.
[0] That is, the specific parameters of property rights are fairly directly axiomatic rather than something rationally grounded in a simpler set of general principles.