A Critique on Intellectual Property (2001)

&gt;What are the alternatives? Imagine an intellectual property law that actually took other people’s rights into account, too. Imagine IP laws that encouraged openness and sharing. Laws that say sure, you can still have your secrets, whether they be technological or religious, but that doesn’t mandate legal protection for such secrecy.<p>Mandatory licensing for patents and most copyrighted products.<p>Determining the price should be left to clever economists and game theorists who can design price discovery mechanisms.

&gt; I happen to absolutely love copyrights, I just don’t believe in taking the rights of the authors too far. Not to the point of screwing the consumer over. And I say this not just as a consumer, but as a producer of copyrighted material myself, both in the form of this book and of Linux itself.<p>Ironically, every time some law gets passed to modernize IP law, &quot;modernize&quot; ends up meaning &quot;expand&quot;.