Why Should Business Leaders Care about Intellectual Property?

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Channel: Ayn Rand Institute · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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The extraordinary achievements in the modern pharmaceutical, biotech, telecommunications and computer industries are dramatic evidence of the significance of intellectual property rights to human life and success. In this talk, law professor Adam Mossoff explains Ayn Rand’s radical justification for intellectual property rights: that all property is — at root — intellectual 

Recorded November 30, 2010

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