Re: Antitrust: Is there really a point?
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Property rights exist to prevent and resolve conflicts over scarce resources. Ideas are not scarce. My "taking" of "your" idea does not prevent you from using that idea.
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Copyright doesn't protect ideas. It protects creations. Patents protect ideas.
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A "copyright," an exclusive right to copy, implies that *I* cannot take *my* blank pages and *my* pen and write *your* words.
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Not exactly. You can do that all you want. You just can't distribute it.
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