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Copyright infringement is theft. At root, all property is intellectual property. http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.html http://aynrandle
by maxharris 14y ago
Copyright infringement is theft. At root, all property is intellectual property.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.htm...
- chris_wot 14y agoInteresting take, but as with much of Ayn Rand's work, fundamentally flawed. An idea can be had independently. The idea if a computer was independently conceived upon in the UK and in Germany at around the same time. Intellectual Property laws weren't needed to "protect" the idea. All that I really being said is that the person who comes up with an idea should be properly compensated. You don't need IP laws to do that. Many businesses agree - they file patents for inventions for their employees, and pay them a wage (and possibly a bonus).