Lysander Spooner's Letter to Grover Cleveland
Free Thoughts
The Lockean Proviso on Intellectual Property
LZ Granderson: Spooner's theory of property in physical objects and land is explicated in his essay on intellectual property. He modifies the Lockean idea, he places much less emphasis on labor than Locke did. LZ: When you enclose land that was previously opened to the commons, you're restricting the liberty of other people. But I think there are good reasons to be troubled by the idea of property, even from a broadly libertarian perspective.
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