Inventors
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inventors · inventor · the inventor · actual inventors · inventive men · inventors as a class
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The Law of Intellectual Property (English)
whereas in the case of the inventor, he seeks to sell, not the labor of producing, or making known, or delivering his idea, (for that labor has already been performed on his own responsibility,) but the idea itself.
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The Law of Intellectual Property
The class of persons who produce inventions, central to the essay's argument for perpetual property.
If the property of inventors were fully protected, and made perpetual, they would find no more difficulty in obtaining the capital necessary for their purposes, than other men do in finding it for theirs;
while, at the same time, it discouraged, outlawed, plundered, and thus in a great measure drove out of market, those extraordinary agricultural producers, the chemists and inventors, who were anxious and ready to furnish food to the people of England, at the rate of a hundred pounds worth of food, in exchange for one pound in money.
The consequence of this want of capital is the same, in the case of inventors, that it is in the case of any of the other industrial classes;