Wired 2.03: The Economy of Ideas
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Saved by 3 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-06-02
- Tonycurzonprice on 2008-02-23 - Tags economics , jz , macarthur
- Senzafine3 on 2007-08-20 - Tags no_tag
- Panizzi on 2007-06-02 - Tags economics of information
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"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself;
but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of
everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar
character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other
possesses the whole of it. 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. That ideas should freely spread from one
to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and
improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently
designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space,
without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we
breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or
exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of
property." - Thomas Jefferson
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If our property can be
infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet
without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession,
how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our
minds? And, if we can't get paid, what will assure the continued creation and
distribution of such work?
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Issue 2.03 | Mar 1994
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we are sailing into the future on a sinking ship.
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Digital
technology is detaching information from the physical plane, where property law
of all sorts has always found definition.
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Law protected expression and, with few (and recent) exceptions, to
express was to make physical.
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