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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (43848)6/11/2001 8:49:22 PM
From: dale_laroyRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
>It should be possible to expropriate (against reasonable price) any IP when public interest is at stake, the same way they can expropriate your house to run a freeway.<

I agree with this. My father spent $2300 to clear some land for crops, only to have the state grab it for $2200 the very next year. Grabbing IP in a similar manner would not be any less fair. Indeed, I have advocated that the government control certain publications that they deem to not be desireable by publishing it in competition with the originators. For example if the government would undermine the profitability of pornography by publishing copies of it at bargain basement prices to compete against the originators they could undermine its profitability without violating any free speech guarantees.

Of course, the owners who's property is claimed by the government would not necessarily lose in the deal. In the case of my father, the land was claimed to provide an area for waterfowl blinds, which were granted by the state in a lottery. The losers of the lottery approached my father and some of them leased my father's corn field after the corn was harvested, initially for $300 for the season, growing to over $1500 for the season over time. This was far more than my father could have ever made from farming the land the state took.

Similarly, the government distributing low priced or free copies of certain IP could end up indirectly benefiting the companies in unforeseen ways.
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