Dean Baker on David Brooks' most recent op-ed that promotes the wonders of intellectual propty...
While Brooks creative friends may have enough power to control the government in the United States and therefore use its policy power to break into dorm rooms and take the other steps necessary to impose his intellectual property claims, they don't have this power in China and other countries. Why on earth would China, India and the rest of the world pay Brooks' creative friends for their intellectual "property" when they can just have the knowledge for free. We don't have the economic or military power to force our protectionism on China and probably soon India, so I guess we'll have to rely on the moral force of Brooks' arguments.
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