[gurps] Treaty on Public Utilities and life support

[Jeff Wilson]

From: David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com>
> 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.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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