Comments on: Building a post-scarcity society in a patent-and-copyright-encumbered intellectual climate

Comments on: Building a post-scarcity society in a patent-and-copyright-encumbered intellectual climate https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/building-a-post-scarcity-society-in-a-patent-and-copyright-encumbered-intellectual-climate/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:04:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Dale B. Halling https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/building-a-post-scarcity-society-in-a-patent-and-copyright-encumbered-intellectual-climate/comment-page-1/#comment-415291 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:04:56 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1560#comment-415291 The “scarcity theory of property rights” is being advanced by a number of scholars at the Cato and Von Mises Institutes. Using this theory they suggest that there is no justification for intellectual property rights. The logical conclusion of their theory is intellectual labor is not deserving of pecuniary reward.

Are they correct that scarcity is the basis of property rights? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/22/scarcity-%e2%80%93-does-it-prove-intellectual-property-is-unjustified/

Is the conception of ideas and inventions subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-for-inventions/

Is the distribution of ideas and invention (technology diffusion) subject to scarcity? See http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-of-adoptiondistribution-of-technology/

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