Does intellectual property exist?  It does, and it must.  That’s the topic of this week’s Technocracy, my WND column:

You can’t eat admiration; you can’t spend applause. If we say there is no intellectual property, we’re saying that the author of a book, the composer of a song and the director of a movie aren’t adding any effort. Their work has no value; their labor has no worth; their skills have no significance. If these things are true, anyone can do what these artists, intellectuals, authors, actors, inventors, composers, engineers and innovators do. That is the definition of something without value, after all: something that anyone can do, or something that nobody wants. Neither case is true in reality where intellectual property is concerned, for if it had no value it would not be worth protecting … and so many people would not be so eager to steal it. If there is no intellectual property, there is no property, period.

Read the entire article here at WorldNetDaily.