Why would you bother to spend years inventing something if other people can just steal your idea? http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/28/intellectual-property-law-maybe-outdated … #Ideas
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Replying to @JohnStossel
@FBNStossel Intellectual property rights are essential to a free market economy. Countries where it is not protected are the poorest.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ckenthenson
@ckenthenson@FBNStossel IP laws and a free market completely contradict each other.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @atommorgan
@atommorgan@FBNStossel How can having the ability to earn from my labor contradict with free markets?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ckenthenson
@ckenthenson@FBNStossel You can still earn from your labor. You just can't infringe on another individual's right to copy you.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @atommorgan
@atommorgan@FBNStossel Then it doesn't belong to me then. If I invent a better mousetrap, you say you can profit from it too?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ckenthenson
@ckenthenson@FBNStossel No, because it's your better version of a mousetrap.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @atommorgan
@atommorgan@FBNStossel And you can manufacture it and market it without paying me?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ckenthenson
@ckenthenson@FBNStossel To say I couldn't would be infringing on my rights to combine raw materials into an output.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @atommorgan
@atommorgan@FBNStossel As long as you don't profit from it, I would agree. Property rights are essential to the free market.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@ckenthenson @FBNStossel Yes, property rights are essential to a free market. But this doesn't include ideas. Ideas are not scarce.
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Replying to @atommorgan
@atommorgan@FBNStossel True. But ideas that work are! LOL.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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