tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post4189722249490203128..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Elizabeth Warren Signals She is Part of the Anti-IP CrowdRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-31877035676745734582021-05-19T14:19:23.413-04:002021-05-19T14:19:23.413-04:00I found that infomation-theoretical argumentation ...I found that infomation-theoretical argumentation flies so over the head of any IP proponent that it is completely useless to even try to advance it.averroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741658997038386075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5683651685685819462021-05-17T20:55:04.813-04:002021-05-17T20:55:04.813-04:00"... but staying stuck in 17th century thinki..."... but staying stuck in 17th century thinking will not advance ideas of justice in a world where ideas have come to play an outsize role."<br /><br />Unless you think that reality, itself, changes over time - as opposed to our understanding of it just improving - then you have to concede that there are ideas that were held in the 17th century, as a subset of ideas that have, and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-69498692789164148782021-05-17T19:11:27.041-04:002021-05-17T19:11:27.041-04:00Great observation. Great observation. Sui Jurishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13797769895327734780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-43356187133798002532021-05-17T12:53:17.181-04:002021-05-17T12:53:17.181-04:00Mechanistic theories of properties, such as from A...Mechanistic theories of properties, such as from Anonymous, Donxon, and NAPster, arose in an era when there was little in the way of IP to think about protecting. Property rights were created to deal with physical objects. The question is how do we extend this theory to a world where a great deal of value is contained in information and the income of large numbers of people comes solely from Scott Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00270655527655803743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-83210479461485455602021-05-17T07:52:42.171-04:002021-05-17T07:52:42.171-04:00Rothbard was wrong on copyright if he was claiming...Rothbard was wrong on copyright if he was claiming that one could have a property right in intangibles, such as information or ideas. The NAPsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631781625841157567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-79706943246272743092021-05-17T07:30:30.738-04:002021-05-17T07:30:30.738-04:00IP is just labor theory of value for engineers.IP is just labor theory of value for engineers.Donxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480364222848672992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-85404663853831996592021-05-17T00:38:30.626-04:002021-05-17T00:38:30.626-04:00"So full marks for candor to Sen. Elizabeth W..."So full marks for candor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who last week explained the real goal: set a precedent that erodes all pharmaceutical intellectual property protections in the U.S. and around the world."<br /><br />Elizabeth Warren is anti-profit-motive, and she sees IP as "special protections" for so-called unearned profit. Big Pharma is seen by Socialists as the profit Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com