Antitrust: Is there really a point?

[The Don]

Yeah I realize that. In fact, I made the same exact point earlier in the discussion.

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How are we supposed to draw the line when we are talking about ideas? Ideas are not scarce like tangible property is. If I create a song, and someone copies it, they have not taken anything from me. I still have my song. Knowing this, how is it possible to consider an idea property? By making ideas property you are creating scarcity where there was once infinity. Anyone who knows anything about economics knows that this is a bad thing.

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

-Thomas Jefferson – First US Patent Examiner


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I am going to have to do some more reading on this before I formally take a position.