Greetings,
There is a long history of personal property acquisition by governing
bodies for various reasons. The notion of "Eminent Domain" is written in
laws in the US; I'm not familiar with other countries. Of course the
criteria for the grab can vary from road building to reservoir
John Courtneidge wrote:
Ä Firstly, all knowledge pre-exists our discovery of it, and, so, any
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individual or group claim upon it, is theft from the commonweal.
(Issac Newton, for example, didn't invent gravity nor the various
Dear f-w friends
I had two thoughts over the weekend.
One concerns the Privatisation of Knowledge Agenda (the other I'm
puzzled to recall - so here's the first ! )
The question as to who has any right to (financially) profit from a piece of
knowledge prompts two thoughts:
John,
You make a very good case for not paying composers, painters,
movie directors and other artists.Which is what has happened in the
U.S William Baumol has a paper on the NYU Economics site about
the problem of "spillovers" which means that the person who comes up
with an idea
"Ray E. Harrell" wrote:
Correction paragraph five should read:
They were tired of governmental and societal activities that imposed
uncompensated costs upon themselves even though their work was
being used and forced them to make a living in other than their
expertise.
(negative externalities).
