Austrian Economics Wiki:Call to Action/Intellectual Property

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Please expand and improve the articles on Intellectual Property and related pages. There is a great discussion raging about this topic and there is much to learn. The Mises Wiki should document this debate.

The ultimate goal: Create a solid introduction for anyone who is interested in the topic. Both sides of the discussion should be covered in good detail.

Current aspirations:

• ...

Things to do:

• Detail the types of IP - main types done, some lesser types need pages
• Process this monster of a resource, and this and this!
• The without IP and costs pages have grown nicely and could use some polishing (and possible more content).
• There's still much to add.
• Analyze the arguments for and against IP - see if there's anything missing.

Done:

• Y take apart Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property and use it for the wiki pages.
• Y take apart the book Against Intellectual Monopoly to get more examples and arguments - done, but there's still a lot of valuable content
• Y create a good page about the Costs of Intellectual Property (lawsuits, research, etc)
• Y Without Intellectual Property (alternatives, success stories without IP, ideas)

Pages

• Intellectual Property
• Types:
  • Trademark
    • Related: trademark dilution, cybersquatting, unfair competition, ticket resale
  • Patent
  • Copyright
  • Trade secrets
  • libel
  • slander
• Analysis:
  • Costs of Intellectual Property
  • Without Intellectual Property
• Other important terms:
  • Fair use
  • Inventor, Invention
  • Innovation
  • Copyright infringement (also needs a general page about piracy)

• Related topics to check/address:
  • Property rights
  • Subjective value -> section about interpersonal utility comparisons
  • Justice
  • Reputation
  • Arbitrariness, arbitrary
  • Ethics, ethical
  • Trespass
  • Homesteading, first-occupier rule
  • Startup company
  • Conspiracy (legal)
  • Loss-leader
  • Product placement
  • Free riding
  • Boycott
  • Law Merchant
  • IFPI, MPA
  • ThePirateBay, BitTorrent
  • Xerox, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Paypal, eBay, YouTube
  • ...