Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? - Tom G. Palmer
Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? - Tom G. Palmer
Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? - Tom G. Palmer
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INO. ZiJ <strong>Are</strong> <strong>Patents</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Copyrights</strong> <strong>Morally</strong> Just!fied? 865<br />
valued uses. The possibility for exchanging transferable property<br />
titles means that holders of property will constantly rearrange<br />
the titles in search of profits Without scarcity this<br />
process would be unnecessary. But the attempt to generate<br />
profit opportunities by legislatively limiting access to certain<br />
ideal goods, <strong>and</strong> therefore to mimic the market processes governing<br />
the allocation of tangible goods, contains a fatal contradiction:<br />
It violates the rights to tangible goods, the very rights<br />
that provide the legal foundations with which markets begin.
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