The rank of thoughtful house privileges (copyrights, patents, and the like) is a topic that has long split up libertarians. Such libertarian luminaries as Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, and Any Rand have been powerful supporters of thoughtful house rights. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was ambivalent on the topic, while fundamental libertarians like Benjamin Tucker in the last 100 years and Tom Palmer in the present one have turned down thoughtful house privileges entirely (Garish 2003).
When libertarians of the first sort arrive over a purported thoughtful house right, they glimpse one more example of an ...