Re: Cosa ne pensate di E-mule?

Inviato da  usemlab il 10/10/2006 16:17:43
molto bello ed esaustivo su copyrights e brevetti.
http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf

pag 22
ideas are not scarce. If I invent a technique for harvesting cotton, your harvesting cotton in this way would not take away the technique from me. I still have my technique (as well as my cotton). Your use does not exclude my use; we could both use my technique to harvest cotton. There is no economic scarcity...

pag.25
Only tangible, scarce resources are the possible object of interpersonal conflict, so it is only for them that property rules are applicable.
Thus, patents and copyrights are unjustifiable monopolies granted by government legislation. It is not surprising that, as Palmer notes, “[m]onopoly privilege and censorship lie at the historical root of patent and copyright.” It is this monopoly privilege that creates an artificial scarcity where there was none before.

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