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Intellectual Property, Privatization And Democracy: A Response To Professor Rose, Mark P. Mckenna
Intellectual Property, Privatization And Democracy: A Response To Professor Rose, Mark P. Mckenna
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The broad thesis of Professor Rose's article Privatization: The Road to Democracy? is an important reminder that no institution deserves all the credit for democratization, and that the success of any particular institution in promoting democracy depends to a greater or lesser extent on the existence and functioning of other political institutions. While protection of private property has proven quite important to successful democratic reform, we should not be lulled into thinking private property can carry the whole weight of reform. That lesson has particular significance in the context of intellectual property, given proponents general tendency to overstate the significance …