Abolish Intellectual Property Rights?
The Soho Forum Debates
Reverse Engineering Drugs
The way in which the intellectual property space is organized, you have things that are kept in the common domain. But if you're trying to sell a drug and so forth that can be easily reversed engineer, you've got to have patent system. And all these things, if they work together, are going to create some kind of greater efficiency. With my gold the general rule was that stuff was left into the public domain, and so therefore, without patents and without any copyright protection on what you should be able to get an enormous amount of innovation coming out of this stuff. In fact, they found exactly the opposite. They found out that there were many lamps, all sorts of very clever techniques
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