Copyright
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copyright · author's copyright · copyright reserved · infringement of copyright · the exclusive right of using ideas for literary purposes
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The Law of Intellectual Property
The exclusive right, ordinarily retained by authors, to use their original ideas for literary purposes.
This exclusive right of using ideas for literary purposes, is what we call the copyright.
The only way, then, in which any exclusive property, in ideas of this kind, can be made valuable to the authors, is by using them for literary purposes, instead of attempting to sell the ideas themselves singly for use.
In the second class of ideas—those, in which the authors retain an exclusive right, for literary purposes, but not for any other use—may be reckoned an infinite number of ideas, that are really useful to mankind, as guides for their conduct, under various circumstances in life;
Law in a Free State
A legal question of property in creative works listed among the hard cases for individualist theory.
” Questions of libel, of cruelty to animals, of copyright, of adulteration, of the relation of the sexes, of rights over land, of nuisance and many others, are difficult to solve straight off on the principle of equal liberty.
to the first recognition of copyright in England;
The Law of Torts
The statutory intellectual property right invoked analogically to question the traditional classification of market disturbance as a nuisance.
If disturbing a market is a nuisance, an infringement of copyright must be a nuisance too, unless the term is to be conventionally restricted to the violation of rights not depending on any statute.