More on a divide among libertarians on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [ip]

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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

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