[LINK] intellectual property

[Kim Holburn]

There's an interesting discussion of intellectual property in blogville.

It started with this in ars:
History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars

An interesting view of property law (American view of course):
> The fundamental lesson is that property rights are not—and never  
> have been—created by Congressional fiat. Property rights emerge  
> spontaneously from the social fabric of a community. The job of the  
> legislature is not to create a property system from scratch, but to  
> formalize the property arrangements that communities have already  
> agreed upon among themselves. A system of property rights will only  
> be effective if it is widely viewed as legitimate.


and here's more:
If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What  
Is It?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458.shtml


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