Here's a free ebook on the subject, written by a patent lawyer no less: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
Here's a free ebook on the subject, written by a patent lawyer no less: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
It is interesting that people living in the places with the weakest IP laws will pay a premium to import baby formula from the places with the strictest laws.
> Here's a free ebook on the subject
Of course it is some right-libertarian wonk piece.
If you have two brands of baby formula, Death brand that kills babies, and OK brand that is perfectly fine, and you start putting Death brand in fake cans labeled OK brand - that is absolutely an IP enforcement issue. The desire of OK brand to protect their brand, and profits, combined with reasonable IP laws allows them to lead enforcement actions and protect consumers.
The kind of intellectual property we are talking about is the one where Death isn't allowed to make baby formula that doesn't kill babies, because OK patented making baby formula that doesn't kill babies and won't give them a license.
This is a matter of trademark, which is completely orthogonal to copyright and nobody is protesting against it here.