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"more than half of the 62 (VOTER ID) bills were sponsored by members or conference attendees of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)...Pennsylvania’s law, which is counted among that group, was sponsored by Republican State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, an ALEC member...“We knew the Indiana law was upheld by the Supreme Court,” he (METCALFE) said. “I’m not sure how much ALEC influenced Indiana law.” ALEC has nearly 2,000 state legislator members who pay $100 in dues every two years.

Anyone proponent of copyright, trademark or patents don't understand that it can not be done unless one kills all innovation. And no I do not call it intellectual property, the laws are civil laws and intellectual property is a newspeak expression invented by the big-media in order to for them to be able to claim theft when there is none.

What do you think of "Intellectual Property" rights? I changed my mind after reading some of Stephan Kinsella's work.

Resource scarcity is the foundational principle underpinning the social construct of property rights. Kinsella states that there are no property rights in situations where there is no resource scarcity.

From that perspective, this young man is not being prosecuted, he is being persecuted.

This is an article on how the lack of intellectual property laws within the bass fishing industry have allowed for a fast paced and highly competitive market where anyone can do well provided they have good products.

This article has multiple references listed and discusses the continued oppression of the american people by the abuse of government power. Property rights have been continually eroded since the drafting of the bill of rights. Many of those rights we no longer have, because of this It is important to educate the voter base on how their rights are being eroded. It also brings the question what can we do to protect our rights?

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property”. The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

How free market in standup comedy business manages to work out intellectual property protection without any litigation whatsoever

I heard some discussion on environmental issues with regard to property rights on the 17 Feb podcast. I would suggest looking into work done by the Property and Environemnt Research Center (www.perc.org). I would also suggest the book Free Market Environmentalism, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal, which describes how markets and recognition of property rights protects the environment more efficiently than does government regulation.

The problems plaguing America's intellectual property system.