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To: Neocon who wrote (3318)	4/28/2004 7:10:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

If you independently invent a chair, go ahead and use it. However, you cannot bring it to market. Is this fair? Reasonably so. I wasn't using the example to ask "shouldn't I be able to make the chair" but rather to question the idea of some natural law right to control the making of chairs. But even absent such a right there can be good reason for public recognition and legal protection of patents and copyrights. In terms of actual policy I would not support the elimination of such rights but I probably would support the rollback of some recent changes to them including those codified in the DMCA. Tim