Libertarianism believes in property rights over tangible resources and goods. Why? Because of their scarcity, which can lead to conflicts over them among humans... from here arises the need for ethical rules to regulate their use. Understanding this, when we talk about intangible resources (ideas), things become very unclear. Ideas are not scarce; anyone can replicate something they see with your resources—text, house designs, phrases, etc.—without stealing from you. Intellectual property is another barrier to freedom of expression and individual liberty. That's the clearest thing I can be about this, many successful examples

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It might depend more on the way IP laws define IP and how the laws are written to provide IP holders with temporary monopolies. Should there be a difference between the invention of a new composition versus a new process? Is there a difference in the social value, if any, created by the incentives for public disclosure of the novel ideas in exchange for the temporary monopoly on sale and use of the new products and processes?