
David D’Amato - Should Intellectual Property Be Part Of A Free Society?
The Curious Task
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Is Intellectual Property a Precursor to Global Capitalism?
I think it's very important to distinguish regardless of someone agrees with it or not, IP at its base principle level versus what we have today. And I do think that the system we have today ultimately depends on sort of like a state capitalist commercial framework because there are some that might argue just offhand that you'd still end up with the kind of things we have today with IP on principle. But I mean, historically, it would seem that when you trace the timeline. A lot of the way things have turned out with IP is specific specifically because of like sort of the way the corporate commercial arrangements are and the basically the system we're living under was also part of the way IP developed.
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