The IP Three

There are three theories as to how intellectual work should be recognised as property (or not): Privileged IP – extended by unnatural monopoly No IP – material property only Natural IP – no unnatural monopoly Privileged IP is the predominant and received thesis. Moreover, to the most extreme of IP maximalists, the privileges of copyright and patent are seen as actually deficient, that the reproduction monopolies should be perpetual, and are otherwise dilutions, albeit tolerable if in the public good. No IP is the predominant counter-thesis, that there is no such thing as intellectual property, that the only thing that can be the subject of property is matter, not information.

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