> Exactly. In my book Steal this Idea, I emphasize how intellectual
> property hinders both science & technical change. Much of he cost
> goes to litigation rather than rewarding creativity.
Couldn't you enforce a distinction between "self-expression" and "tool building"?
Certainly the knowledge for Optical Character Recognition should/could be made freely available, but is it necessary to gut an author's means to a livelihood? Nobody's going to cure cancer as a result of reading _Infinite Jest_.