Newsgroups: trial.misc.legal.software
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Intellectual Property
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 17:24:13 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.172413.10447@looking.on.ca>
References: <80565@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Aug10.043721.2081@looking.on.ca> <80636@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Aug11.040632.21692@looking.on.ca> <80817@aerospace.AERO.ORG>

Of course most people didn't create what they own.  But they almost always
traded something for it, namely money, which they (in theory) earned.

And they earned it in exchange for labour or creative work.  (I am
including labour here.)

There are other examples, most of them centered around land, which you
get to own without creating.  And a few around luck, like lotteries.

But by and large the way the system is supposed to work is that ownership
is derived from creation/labour, and of course ownership gets traded.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473