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A Letter to Scientists and Inventors
A Lysander Spooner essay proposing perpetual property rights in discoveries and inventions.
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"The truth and justice of this proposition are too nearly self-evident to need much argument in their support."
lol, that's a good one, Spooner.
IP, patents and copyright should die. It's sad that a guy like Spooner did not realize that making ideas property make natural property rights shaky. I wonder what he would think of the RIAA?