I thought intellectual property wasn't
"real" property?
At least that's what opponents of intellectual property have been saying.
But now, apparently, those who attack intellectual property are desirous of using a tool that was designed for real property.
Governments are planning to start using their power of eminent domain to seize the patents of prescription drug companies.
Apparently, if a government doesn't like the price that is being offered to them by a drug company, the government will simply pull eminent domain out of their back pockets and take the drug for whatever they feel like paying.
Yes, they'll pay for the drug, but they'll pay what they feel like paying, like governments do when they seize real property and also get to be the ones who determine the "fair" value.
This is just the latest example of everything that is wrong with government. It's why our Founders distrusted government, and why they did everything they could to limit government's power to interfere with the lives of citizens.
Everyone who cares about limited government, not only those who care about intellectual property, should be offended by this and do everything they can to stop it.
The problem is that it tends to be those who love massive, leviathan government who also don't care about intellectual property.
And they have no problem with the intellectual inconsistency of applying real property law to something they say isn't "real" property.
At least that's what opponents of intellectual property have been saying.
But now, apparently, those who attack intellectual property are desirous of using a tool that was designed for real property.
Governments are planning to start using their power of eminent domain to seize the patents of prescription drug companies.
Apparently, if a government doesn't like the price that is being offered to them by a drug company, the government will simply pull eminent domain out of their back pockets and take the drug for whatever they feel like paying.
Yes, they'll pay for the drug, but they'll pay what they feel like paying, like governments do when they seize real property and also get to be the ones who determine the "fair" value.
This is just the latest example of everything that is wrong with government. It's why our Founders distrusted government, and why they did everything they could to limit government's power to interfere with the lives of citizens.
Everyone who cares about limited government, not only those who care about intellectual property, should be offended by this and do everything they can to stop it.
The problem is that it tends to be those who love massive, leviathan government who also don't care about intellectual property.
And they have no problem with the intellectual inconsistency of applying real property law to something they say isn't "real" property.