Property 

A case against intellectual property 

copyrights and their flawn conceptualization

a scientist cannot possibly consider copyrights a type of property as no devoted scholar can deny the appeal of IP in general detaching from the very core of the foundational doctrine on private property. IP property is a fiction, it is acceptable because of random, arbitrary legislative decision making processes.

rights are not free. They come from something else. When you have a set of rights allocated and you start giving out more rights, they have to start chipping into the previous ones recognized. They have to come from something else. Rights and obligations are correlative. If you have a right to education or welfare, someone’s got to provide it. They have to provide it out of their property. So recognizing “new” rights just amounts to a redistribution of property.  It’s the same thing with intellectual property, which is nothing but a redistribution of rights. It is a redistribution of property rights from the original owner of a thing, to someone who applied at a state agency for some kind of monopoly certificate that gives them the right to go to government courts to ask the court to point their guns at the original owner and tell them “you have to share your property with this guy, or you can’t use it in this way without this guy’s permission.” It is a way of redistributing property rights. The idea that you can just add IP rights to the set of property rights in scarce resources is a pernicious one that leads to redistribution of control that owners have over their property, to other people.

It is the digital age 

Network society

The perils of developed states

Supranational interest prescribing policy and laws

Need to fuel economic growth 

Laws and public policy
International level: WIPO, TRIPS, IIPI, etc

Supranational level: Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) and european patent office (EPO)

National level: Laws and statutes (civil law branch and expanding)

Culture manifestations (traditions, beliefs, attitudes, practices, habits, etc.)