----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dawson" <MDawson at pdx.edu>
> Intellectual property is theft.
>
> Chuck
Tell that to Little Richard, who never got a nickel from Pat Boone, who stole his songs outright before copyright was extended to music.
If it's created by the labor of its owner, property is not theft.
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Naive Lockeanism.
By that short assertion, Einstein and his heirs should own the stream/flow of exchange value of the STR, the GTR and lots of other 'stuff.'
And why *shouldn't* he? What makes his creativity different from that of Little Richard, or Picasso?