From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Thu Dec 30 1999 - 10:39:44 MST
> Yes, any difference between physical and intellectual property
> is in the details, not in the general idea of property.
So the obvious, fundamental, inescapable, objective difference
that physical property _cannot_ be used by two or more people
simultaneously while intellectual property can be is just a
"detail"? Isn't that very fact the primary reason for creating
the idea of "property" in the first place--to make efficient
decisions about the use of non-sharable things? Why should we
automatically assume that the same structures would work for
sharable things?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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