----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" <[email protected]> To: "Politech" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:42 AM Subject: [Politech] More on a divide among libertarians on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [ip]
Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2006/03/28/a-divide-among/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] A divide among libertarians on DMCA: Cato says get rid of it [ip] Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:42:33 -0800 From: Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Declan McCullagh writes: > Small-L libertarians broadly agree on many things, including the need > for individual rights, limited government, contracts, and low taxes. But > a few areas have internal rifts: Abortion and intellectual property > number among them. The latter is an ancient theme. For example, U.S. libertarians disagreed about it publicly in 1888. http://www.wendymcelroy.com/libdebates/ch6intpr.html One interesting point is that libertarians who think intellectual property was created by government often want to eliminate it entirely (or adopt a strong presumption against it), while libertarians who think intellectual property is a natural right often want it to be absolute. -- Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | This is a new focus for the security http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | community. The actual user of the PC http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | [...] is the enemy. | -- David Aucsmith, IDF 1999 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
