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To: Neocon who wrote (982)	1/17/2003 2:06:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 7936

The libertarian position is that something is mine, without qualification, if it is produced by my labor Different people could have different views as to what is a product of someone's labor. If you write a story one person might view only the physical paper and ink or digital device that the story is on as being your property. Another view (one that more libertarians would support) would be that the story itself it your property, not just the physical representation of it but the story even abstracted from its physical representation. A third idea would be that the story was your property and anything very similar to the story would be your property. This would seem to be the theory held by Disney and a few other copyright holders. Also while libertarian is probably more precisely defined the conservative or liberal it still contains a whole range of different thoughts and ideas. Some "flavors" of libertarianism verge on anarchy and would focus more on government intrusion of not allowing someone to create a story or distribute information then they would on intellectual property rights. Certainly if taken to an extreme intellectual property rights would not result in a world with little government intrusion in to our lives and reducing such intrusion is the most important common theme in libertarian thought. In particular I think libertarians would be against restrictions on devices that have the ability to copy data or programs like DeCss that let you access data. They might support prosecuting violators of copyrights but the attempt to eliminate the possibility of violating the copyright even if it eliminates "fair use" and even can make accessing high quality versions of non copyrighted material more difficult is not something that I think most libertarians would support, at least not as a legal requirement. For some libertarian perspectives on the issue I did a search on Reason magazines sight. Reason is probably the most widely circulated libertarian magazine. reason.com reason.com reason.com Or a more extreme perspective from another site libertariannation.org

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