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CRITIQUE OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Published 2013 by the Mises Institute and published
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A LIBERTARIAN
CRITIQUE OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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BUTLER SHAFFER
MISESINSTITUTE
AUBURN, ALABAMA
CONTENTS
Introduction
by David Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual
Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5
INTRODUCTION
1
Butler Shaffer, “The Hitler Test” http://archive.
lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer52.html
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2
Butler Shaffer, Boundaries of Order, chrome://epu-
breader/content/reader.xul?id=19
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3
Ibid.
Butler Shaffer 13
4
Ibid.
14 A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property
5
See p. 18 in this book.
Butler Shaffer 15
6
See p. 21 in this book.
16 A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property
David Gordon
Los Angeles, California
November 5, 2013
7
See p. 27 in this book.
A LIBERTARIAN
CRITIQUE OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
1
Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social
System (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2009).
Butler Shaffer 19
2
Jeremy Bentham, “Principles of the Civil Code,”
(1802) in John Bowring, ed., The Works of Jeremy
Bentham (New York: Russell & Russell, 1962), vol.
1, p. 308.
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3
Franz Oppenheimer, The State: Its History and De-
velopment Viewed Sociologically, trans. by John M.
Gitterman (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922), p. 24;
reprinted New York: Free Life Editions, 1975.
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4
A dictionary definition informs us as to the meaning
of a “Legal monopoly: The exclusive right granted by
government to business to provide utility services that
are, in turn, regulated by the government.” Black’s
Law Dictionary (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing,
9th ed., 2004), p. 1098.
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5
Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (New
York: Touchstone, 1981), pp. 32–35.
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6
Ibid., pp. 88, 225.
Butler Shaffer 33
7
See, e.g., mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt
-make-alphabet
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8
Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations (New
York: E.P. Dutton, 1978), pp. 34, xviii; emphasis in
original.
9
Ibid., p. xviii.
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10
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (Glen-
coe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1963).
11
See, e.g., Arthur Dewing, Corporate Promotions
and Reorganizations (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1930), pp. 546–547; Kolko, ibid.,
pp. 37, 46; Temporary National Economic Commit-
tee, Competition and Monopoly in American Industry,
Monograph no. 21 (Washington, D.C.: Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1940), p. 311; Milt Gillespie
and Aileen Lee, “Building Hospital Market Power
Through Horizontal Integration—Is It Working?”, in
The McKinsey Quarterly 1996, no. 4: 205–11; Si-
mon Brady and Caren Chester-Marsh, “The Madness
of Mergers,” Euromoney, September 1991: 66–81;
Butler Shaffer 45
15
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation (London: Ar-
kana, 1989), p. 229.
Butler Shaffer 49
16
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (London: Verso,
rev. ed., 1988), p. 9; emphasis in original.
17
Ibid., pp. 19, 24; emphasis in original.
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18
Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 555.
Butler Shaffer 53
19
Carroll Quigley, The Evolution of Civilizations (In-
dianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Press, 1979), pp. 101ff.
20
Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968), p. 91.
21
Jacob Burckhardt, Force and Freedom: Reflections
on History, James H. Nichols, ed. (New York: Pan-
theon Books, 1964), p. 103.
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