Against intellectual property

There is also a good book of the same name:<p><a href="http://mises.org/store/Against-Intellectual-Property-P523.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://mises.org/store/Against-Intellectual-Property-P523.as...</a><p>...as well as the more in-depth, similarly-titled and themed Against Intellectual Monopoly:<p><a href="http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm" rel="nofollow">http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...</a><p>Those inclined to opt out of the copyright game, put your code where your mouth is and release your next software project using this:<p><a href="http://unlicense.org/" rel="nofollow">http://unlicense.org/</a>

Robert Laughlin's The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind, Basic Books, 2008 is a interesting and provocative examination of the issue of intellectual property and how it interacts with free market ideas. The key question is "what can be owned?".