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In article <huug1zonbvzx.fsf@huug.demon.nl> mail4me@huug.demon.nl "huug" writes:
> >>>>> "Louis" == Louis B Moore <moore.louis@childrens.tchden.org> writes:
>  Louis> huug <rot13{znvy4zr@uhht.qrzba.ay}> writes:
>  >> What's new about it?  P.J.Proudhon wrote "Property is theft" in
>  >> 1840.
>  Louis> Well, if you consider intellectual property to be social
>  Louis> capital, then society as a whole is impoverished to the extent
>  Louis> that the individual is enriched. I suppose that can be
>  Louis> considered theft.
> 
> Well, I don't think Proudhon was considering IP (I doubt it was invented
> at that time, or at least legal in France).

IIRC patent law in the UK dates from the 1700s. (Watt was able to 
patent his steam engine in the 1780s). So the concept of IP did exist 
then; how prevalnet the idea was in France I don't know.


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