[ExI] intellectual property again.

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

2010/3/9 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>:
>
> Regarding intellectual property (IP), there are disagreements amongst
> libertarians on this, though the more consistent libertarians tend to be
> anti-IP. Arguments about pragmatics on this -- i.e., what might happen if
> there's no IP protection in place -- tend to overlook actual evidence. Whole
> industries seem to flourish with no IP protection today (restaurants,
> fashion, etc.) and the main driver of IP protection today seems to be not to
> create new stuff, but to keep competitors out.

### You could have contract-based IP, even in a polycentric law
system. If it turned out that most law providers, in service to their
customers, offer IP protection, and the only way to avoid it is by
patronizing a marginal provider, or by not participating in social
interactions at all, would you be against IP?

Rafal