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FreeTalkLive on Tucker, IP, and Boldrin & Levine

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On tonight’s FreeTalkLive (from about 1:06:55 to 1:38:22, again from 1:51:52 and following) the hosts discuss and read Jeff Tucker’s entire article Does Innovation Require Property in Ideas? on the air (Tucker’s article discusses Boldrin & Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly). A very lively discussion ensues including–surprise!–a patent lawyer who calls in to meekly support patent law (and also some kind of limits on how much money doctors can spend on marketing… hunh?). (HT to Manuel Lora.)

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