Intellectual Property Law

are intellectual property rights justified?

I have a discussion on whether intellectual property rights should be approved. where can I find good information.

Public Comments

1. get good info from sites which are the main culprits for violating property rights such as ebay and music download sites. In my opinion they are good but should only apply for a certain number of years 5-10.
2. Intellectual property right is justified for several reasons. Yet analysing the reasons to justify property right apparently are profit driven reasons. The main rational behind intellectual property right is the preservation of motivational factors for these inventors, entrepreneurs etc. to innovate and continue to improve the quality of their products. Once intellectual property rights are not granted, these aforesaid people will find no reason to innovate. They'll just rely on copying newly invented products. Moreover, intellectual property right aims to protect the owner of the idea being implemented. Say for instance, a biochemist who happen to find a cure for Aids will be granted property rights. Hence, he can regulate the production of the drug and certainly receives a percentage of the profit. These among others are the reasons to justify intellectual property rights but to some extent these reasons discounts the fact that intellectual property rights obfuscate potential maximisation of these inventions. Because royalties and incentives are given to the owner of the idea, companies making these invented products will have to increase the product's price so as to cover for the pay given to the inventors. While it is true that these are necessary evil, it is unfortunate that affects the consumers of these goods and services. And since, IPR extends even to basic necessities (i.e. medicines), the marginalised member of the society gets to suffer. You can go to www.debatabase.com and open the issues concerning IPR. I hope I was of help to you.
3. I am not familiar with this subject, but its an interesting question. Inventions--that is, things which can be put to use can be patented, but there is (are?) no such thing as intellectual property rights as such, I would not think. Ideas are just that--properties of one's intellect unless and until they can be applied. No one can own anothers mind, torture methods to the contrary. Ideas cannot be claimed or owned unless expressed. They would also need to be evaluated, but this could be done by someone as intellectual and talented as Mozart, Shakespeare, Einstein or Feynmann, etc. prior to being shared with others. You are really making me think, but its only 3:20 am here, so I'm hardly at my sharpest--LOL!