"Harvesting the Uncollected Fruits of Other People's Intellectual Labour"

by Timmermann, Cristian (2017)

Abstract

Intellectual property regimes necessarily create artificial scarcity leading to wastage, both by blocking follow-up research and hindering access to those who are only able to pay less then the actual retail price. After revising the traditional arguments to hinder access to …

Keywords

Intellectual Labour, Patents, Wastage, Public Domain, Intellectual Property, Innovation, Natural Rights, Locke, Free-Riding

Themes

Political Theory, Intellectual vs Manual Work

Links to Reference

• https://philpapers.org/rec/TIMHTU
• https://philpapers.org/archive/TIMHTU.pdf

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