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Edit by TheXenophobist on article 'Intellectual Property'
here begins the quoted text *************************** Some libertarian critics of intellectual property have argued that allowing property rights in ideas and information creates artificial scarcity and infringes on the right to own tangible property. Stephan Kinsella uses the following thought experiment to demonstrate this objection: + 	"[I]magine the time when men lived in caves. One bright guy—let’s call him Galt-Magnon—decides to build a log cabin on an open field, near his crops. To be sure, this is a good idea, and others notice it. They naturally imitate Galt-Magnon, and they start building their own cabins. But the first man to invent a house, according to IP advocates, would have a right to prevent others from building houses on their own land, with their own logs, or to charge them a fee if they do build houses. It is plain that the innovator in these examples becomes a partial owner of the tangible property (e.g., land and logs) of others, due not to first occupation and use of that property (for it is already owned), but due to his coming up with an idea. Clearly, this rule flies in the face of the first-user homesteading rule, arbitrarily and groundlessly overriding the very homesteading rule that is at the foundation of all property rights."

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I don't have anything to say yet. Sometimes my edits get deleted as well. It's a matter of being "loud and insistent" I guess.(o That is true for well founded argument as well as non-"well founded arguments". What do you think? Logictheo (talk) 03:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)