Article in the Economist arguing against intellectual property rights. http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21660753-our-leader-patents-1851-right-property-inventions
Feb 1st, 1851 The right of property in inventions WE ARE challenged by some observations in the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday to resume the consideration of the claims of inventors. We have as strong a desire as our contemporary, or as the Committee of the Society of Arts, whose views he expounds, that genius should meet its appropriate rewards—that invention should be encouraged—that discoverers of useful things should be honoured—that no thought permanently beneficially should be lost; but we cannot, therefore, conclude that inventors should have a monopoly for a limited period of certain published thoughts and plans, which they may have been the first to conceive. continues here http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21660753-our-leader-patents-1851-right-property-inventions
