From: David Scheidt <[email protected]>
No. It's not an opinion. It's the definition of intellectual property. IP is a monopoly granted by the state (or whatever proxy for the state exists) that allows the owner of the IP to extract a rent from the IP. In the absence of the protection granted by the state, there is no way to extract the rent. That makes it a distortion of the free market.
The quoted definition of free market *did* include an allowance for laws protecting property rights, without excluding IP.
-- Jeff Wilson - [email protected] < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
