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.
In this way, each man laboring for, and supplying, those nearest to him, all are labored for, and supplied.
And this state of poverty would continue so long as the right of individual and permanent property was denied.
Thus, in effect, an inventor really gives, outright to society, ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the wealth, which his invention produces.