Intellectual Monopoly

Discussion
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Letitia,

1. Please clarify how not paying for the profit of another's work would
violate libertarian law.
2. Are you willing to read the review of Against Intellectual Monopoly, at
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker123.html by Jeff Tucker?

3. What is your response to Mike Denny's question, "should Mozart have paid
the inventor of stringed instruments?"

Warm regards, Michael

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1. Please clarify how not paying for the profit of another's work would violate libertarian law.
I didn't say either that "not paying for the profit of another's work would violate libertarian law," or that it wouldn't violate libertrian law. I said something more like: if A is able to make a profit by using B's intangile proprty -- like a song -- to sell a tangile product -- like a CD -- then it seems "fair" that A should share some of the profits from the CDs with B since A probably could not have sold a blank CD for as much as a CD with a song on it.
I'm actually not a Libertarian; I'm a bad Buddhist. So in terms of Libertarian law, I suspect that Libetarian law is similar to the Wiccan motto, "do what ye will, an it harms none." So A's NOT paying B doesn't actively harm B, but it may actually harm A; karma, do unto others, etc.

2. Are you willing to read the review of Against Intellectual Monopoly, at http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker123.html by Jeff Tucker? Sure, but not any time soon.

3. What is your response to Mike Denny's question, "should Mozart have paid the inventor of stringed instruments?" Wow; I looked at that question carefully, it's a koan. So, in the grand tradition of Buddhism, I'll say it's like a Zen Buddhist koan, and I'll answer with a Tibetan buddhism answer: "Shouldn't we leave that up to Mozart and the inventor to work out betwixt themselves?"

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Nooooo...The real reason Mozart does not pay is because the violin patent expired, and the inventor, hopefully, received his return on the investment of time, effort, inventiveness, insight.

Or, same difference, the inventor and the user work things out among themselves -- the inventor bothering to invent, and the user paying him a certain sum (determined by prescribed time) for using the invention. No freebies.

Marcy