"Attorneys are great if you need them," Mr. Maher said, "but the state should not provide monopoly protection in the guise of consumer protection".
This was accomplished by providing 'push' incentives that reduce the fixed costs of R&D and 'pull' incentives that increase the expectation of profits, by providing monopoly market conditions.
After all, who in his right mind would seek a lousy old patent offering a mere 20 years of protection when copyright can provide monopoly rights for up to 70 years after the author's death?
Individuals getting lured into providing monopoly access to their digital replicas because of the convenience of personalized services may never realize that their choices are being made not by them but by their providers.
The first is the patent and trademark system, which provides monopolies for inventive products in return for full disclosure of the technology.
"It's the arrangement that corporations found beneficial in a system that provides monopolies and rewards secrecy, and we should ask for considerably more as the standard," he said.
In '54, the introduction of commercial TV struck a blow at Haley's idea of using the complete planning power provided by monopoly to elevate public taste.
The Nabucco pipeline project, which aims to diversify gas suppliers across Europe and thus mitigate Russia's supply monopoly, will provide energy to the EU from the Caspian region and the Middle East.
The $270bn handed to the drug companies each year through governmen- provided patent monopolies is five times as much money as what was at stake with the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
The mental health provider (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) provides near monopoly coverage of its geographical area enabling us to have established a cohort of representative women from an ethnically diverse population with SMI in the perinatal period.
