 | Nancy Kranich - 2001 - 236 lapas
...action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as lie keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged,...property, ideas and expressions are not susceptible lo natural scarcity. As Jefferson wrote of copyright, "Its peculiar character, too. is that no one... | |
 | David Bollier - 2002 - 280 lapas
...as unlimited as the Western frontiers once were. Thomas Jefferson expressed this faith when he said: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. "3 Justice Louis Brandeis expressed a similar belief in 1918 when he wrote... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 lapas
...fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its perculiar character, too, is that... | |
 | Wendy McElroy - 2003 - 224 lapas
...others of exclusive property, it is ... an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as lov».g as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."20 The inalienability of ideas was a problem... | |
 | John McMillan - 2003 - 288 lapas
...something works upon explaining it. The peculiar character of an idea is that, as Thomas Jefferson said, "the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." Moreover, "no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the... | |
 | Paul K. Saint-Amour - 2003 - 306 lapas
...Commercial and the Morning Telegraph [New York], in Viereck, ed., Scrapbook 15. 31. Jefferson wrote: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every... | |
 | Howard F. Didsbury - 2003 - 376 lapas
..."intellectual property." That ideas could be a type of property struck Thomas Jefferson as odd: If nature had made any one thing less susceptible than all others...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possess the less, because every... | |
 | Robert J. Barro, Xavier I. Sala-I-Martin - 2003 - 676 lapas
...nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the actions of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every... | |
 | 274 lapas
...hoarded up—they are the common currency of thought, speech, and language. 4 Thomas Jefferson wrote: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is thai no one possesses the less, because every... | |
 | Joseph Feller - 2005 - 590 lapas
...perhaps the most powerful passage from his writing that in my view defines the dilemma of our age: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every... | |
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If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea ; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself, but the moment it is divulged,... 
