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March 02, 2006
Corporate Socialism Redux
Philosopher & lawyer Arnold Kling writes very persuasively that US patent law, as it is currently practiced, actually discourages invention and innovation.
The original purpose of patents and copyrights was for the state to grant a temporary monopoly to writers and inventors to maximize their financial gain from their work in order to encourage new work in the arts and sciences. That was the noble intent of it all anyhow (Tell that to the people at RIM, eh?)
Patents and copyrights are today purely statist legal constructs that should be seriously reconsidered. “Intellectual property” indeed.
Posted by Ali Massoud at March 2, 2006 11:39 AM
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He is not a lawyer he is an economist.
He got his creds from MIT.
He has since apparently found the error of his ways and come around to libertarianism, as evidenced by his article here.
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=012706B
I guess he's been reading Kinsella, a lawyer.
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at March 3, 2006 02:46 AM
You are correct Libertas Infinitus, Kling is an economist and entrepreneur and not a lawyer or academic philosopher. I confused him for another TCS author I was also reading.
Kling is also way more “freedom friendly” than most of the other statist oriented TCS authors too, I have found.
As to the Kinsella reference you make I have no idea about what you are referring to. Do you mean Stephan Kinsella who posts at the LvMI blog and LRC? I must admit I have not read his stuff very often.
Posted by: Ali_Massoud at March 5, 2006 02:24 PM
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