...of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me,...instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from...

...of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me,...instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from...

...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have...

...of intellectual property rights, eloquently captured this essential characteristic of information: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." It is the inexhaustibility of intellectual assets that makes healthy and sometimes extraordinary, margins...

..."non-rival." Paul David (2003, 20) quotes Thomas Jefferson's eloquent statement in 1813 on this point: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction...taper at mine receives light without darkening me. " The second characteristic of public goods is that they are difficult and costly to hold exclusively...

...was elegantly articulated by the United States' first patent examiner, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote: 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction...his taper at mine, receives light without darkening mine.'5 Economics has recognized since Adam Smith that the capitalist economy does very well at producing...

...careful to point out that thought and expression do not earn their value through material scarcity: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction...his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."42 As Vaidhyanathan tells us, copyright legislation became another "Madisonian compromise, a necessary...

...is to lift the , , , . . prohibition on circumventing ac- He who recelves an ldea from me, recelves instruction himself without lessening mine; as he...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. — Thomas Jefferson cess controls for that particular class of works for the ensuing three-year period....

...1859): [The] peculiar character [of an idea] is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. A non-rivalrous good, therefore, is something that people can share at the same time without any single...

...continued that the peculiar character of an idea "is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." This was part of the benevolent design of nature, Jefferson told his correspondent. Echoing his comments...