Intellectual Property / Property in Ideas
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property in ideas · intellectual property · property in intellectual wealth
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The Law of Intellectual Property
The doctrine that ideas and other intellectual products are rightfully owned as property on the same natural-law basis as material things.
The right of property in intellectual wealth, has manifestly the same foundation, as the right of property in material wealth.
We shall then see that the right of property in ideas, is at least as strong as—and in many cases identical with—the right of property in material things.
But, secondly, there is no real foundation for the assertion, or rather for the distinction assumed, that material wealth is produced by physical labor, and that ideas are produced by intellectual labor.
Law in a Free State
A debateable right to intellectual production, mentioned as another example of ill-defined legal boundaries.
Similarly, on the borderland between old-established rights and rights which are only half-admitted, stands the right to what is called “property in ideas.