Obviously, the free movement proviso is a far-reaching restriction of the property right of route owners as it would be defined according to the "freedom as property" conception, but it is not an arbitrary restriction — in fact, it is rooted the idea of freedom, which is, or should be, the supreme libertarian value.
What counts in the market are the externalities that can be derived from intellectual property. How to deal with these externalities is, of course, a different matter.
The predator state cannot be tamed. Only when the public withdraws its consent will the predations come to an end.
"Calls for abolition of the patent system — especially those coming from a principled, rights-based approach — are very unlikely to be adopted at the present time."
The notion that only the state can provide an adequate defense is but one more statist myth — perhaps the most dangerous one of all.
Although evils exist in both the shared and private forms of a city, it is only in the private form that the virtues of temperance, love, and generosity can be exercised.
Rothbard's willingness to engage in frank criticism of bad ideas from any source only underscores his insistence on honesty and independence of mind.
What an irony it is that the capitalist entrepreneurs so despised by the Arts and Crafts Movement turned out to be its saviors.
There was just something too utilitarian and results oriented in Rand's purportedly principled case for IP, and something too artificial about the state's copyright and patent statutory classifications.
"Since most matter in the universe could be used to encode an idea, intellectual property is a claim over the entire universe."
