or An Essay on the Right of Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in their Ideas
The Law of Intellectual Property; or An Essay on the Right of Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in their Ideas (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1855).
Table of Contents
Note.
Part I: The Law of Intellectual Property.
Chapter I.: The Law of Nature In Regard to Intellectual Property.
Section I.: The Right of Property In Ideas to Be Proved By Analogy.
Section II.: What Is Wealth?
Section III.: What Is Property?
Section IV.: What Is the Right of Property?
Section V.: What Things Are Subjects of Property?
Section VI.: How Is the Right of Property Acquired.
Section VII.: What Is the Foundation of the Right of Property?
Section VIII.: How Is the Right of Property Transferred?
Section IX.: Con... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
(1798 - 1874) ~ Early American Individualist Anarchist Publisher and Writer : Equally notable as an inventive genius, a social philosopher, and a peaceful revolutionist, Josiah Warren stands forth, by descent, by his practical, all-round talents, by the force of an earnest life's work, as an American of the sturdy pioneer type whose brawn and brains have formed the true foundation of the republic. (From : William Bailie Bio.)
• "It is not till after long and painful experience and study that we discover that the precedents, traditions, authorities, and fictions upon which society has been allowed to grow up, do not coincide with each other, nor with the great unconquerable primitive or divine laws." (From : "True Civilization," by Josiah Warren.)
• "Primitive nature insists on an Individuality in a personal lead, and it is in vain for us to contend against it." (From : "True Civilization," by Josiah Warren.)
• "It is worse than useless, it is calamitous, to legislate as if it were possible to divest ourselves of this involuntary instinct of self- preservation or self-sovereignty, and those who accept or act on such pledge commit as great an error as those who give it, and all contracts to this effect being impossible of fulfillment are null and void." (From : "True Civilization," by Josiah Warren.)