Lysander Spooner
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The Law of Intellectual Property
The essay's author, arguing that a book and the ideas it describes are legally distinct commodities.
These are no doubt weighty considerations;
That a book, and the ideas it describes, are, in fact, and in law, distinct commodities;
These questions and arguments are of vital importance to the principle of intellectual property.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
American legal theorist and abolitionist, author of the essay.
Nationality:
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
The author claims the copyright of this book in England, on Common Law principles, without regard to acts of parliament;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The author, writing in the first-person plural, who constructs and asserts the legal argument against slavery's constitutionality.
We make a stand, then, at this point, and insist that the main question—the only material question—is already decided against slavery;
We might here safely rest the whole question—for no one, as has already been said, pretends that the constitution of the United States, by its own authority, created or authorized slavery as a new institution;
This guaranty, then, is not idle verbiage.