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But Vanderbilt's parents passed on a shrewd and merciless business sense — his mother once foreclosed on her own widowed daughter's mortgage — and as a young man he quickly found a mentor in Thomas Gibbons, whose battle against a steamboat rival led to the landmark Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which struck a blow for antimonopolist laissez-faire principles.

The Sage of Steam 2009

Second, partly because of those differences, and because of the influence of free-trade Scottish Enlightenment thought on the American Revolution in particular, there was a powerful antimonopolist and free-trade sentiment behind the copyright and patent clause.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

But that did not and does not negate the antimonopolist and, for that matter, utilitarian roots of the

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

Eighteenth - and nineteenth-century intellectual property debates went beyond Macaulay's antimonopolist focus on price, access, quality, and control of the nation's literary heritage.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

Professor Mossoff argues that Jefferson's views have been misused by the courts and legal historians, and that if we understand the use of the word "privilege" in historical context, we see that the "patent privilege" was influenced by a philosophy of natural rights as well as the antimonopolist utilitarianism described here.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

More importantly, Jefferson's thinking about patents was infused by a deeply utilitarian, antimonopolist tinge.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

For the most part, the antimonopolist view of intellectual property makes a simple case.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

Ochoa, Rose, and Walterscheid stress the antimonopolist concerns that animated some of those who were most active in the debates about intellectual property.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

Yet when one looks at the actual world of intellectual property policy discourse, and the difficulty of enunciating even the simple Jeffersonian antimonopolist ideas I lay out here, it is hard to imagine the nuanced Lockean view flourishing.

The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

Well I understand all those privacy / antimonopolist / etc issues but I would be glad if Google buys Twitter because this would bring Google a little bit closer to being The Ultimate Everything it is supposed to be and I still hope to see something like this during my lifetime

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