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Originally Posted by JPhillips
All of that's tied up into economics. There are few wealthy musicians without intellectual property laws. Same goes for drug and software companies. The society has agree that individuals making those contributions should be able to amass wealth if possible. Given the importance of patents to industry you can probably trace a huge percentage of wealth to patent and intellectual property law.
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No doubt about that, it is a part of the debate, but I think we're getting further and further away from what the original debate was about.
During Roman times people made fortunes and you had classes and it was not due to patent and intellectual property laws. Those laws are much more important to modern societies than they were four centuries ago.