 | Ray Corrigan - 2007 - 321 lapas
...communications utilities before we can get access to all this 'free' information. Thomas Jefferson said: "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... | |
 | Van Lindberg - 2008 - 394 lapas
...expected, however, information is not like a banana. Quoting again from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 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. A non-excludable good, therefore, is a... | |
 | 1836 - 494 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... | |
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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,... 
