| Keith E. Maskus, Jerome H. Reichman - 2005 - 952 lapas
...SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON (MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS) 629-630 (A. Koch & W. Peden eds., 1972). "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 peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
| Mathew Callahan - 2005 - 276 lapas
...though, it is important to show how music is a prime example of Jefferson's often quoted argument: 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 peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
| Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe - 2005 - 373 lapas
...so-called first principles. This body of knowledge, experience and ideas has come to be known as a commons. 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 peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
| Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 lapas
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of a 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... | |
| Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 240 lapas
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of a thinking power called an idea, which an individual...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of eveiyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character too, is that no... | |
| John N. Drobak - 2006 - 257 lapas
...limited scope of patents, had this to say about the very idea of protecting something like an idea: 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... | |
| Pradip Thomas, Jan Servaes - 2006 - 282 lapas
...Thomas Jefferson, architect of the US Bill of Rights, who observed in the year 1813, 'If nature has made one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive...everyone, and the receiver cannot dispose himself of it'.2 Notes 1. Kaye Stearman reports on the progress towards a draft treaty on Access to Knowledge=A2K,... | |
| Ben Klemens - 2005 - 192 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 peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
| Hassan, Robert, Thomas, Julian - 2006 - 358 lapas
...difference is fundamental, and it has been understood since the founding. Jefferson put it better than I: 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 peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
| Christine Harold - 2007 - 227 lapas
...was adamant that the characteristics of property must not be applied to expression. In 1813 he wrote, "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible...everyone, and the receiver cannot dispose himself of it."30 As the comment that opens this section illustrates, Jefferson viewed the invention process as... | |
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