They guys who started it all.

Music by Aaron Hutchinson

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.  It’s peculiar character too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessing mine; as he who lights a taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas 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 been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813

Post title by Flavor Flav of Public Enemy on the track “Caught, Can We Get a Witness” on the Album “It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back”

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