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• “Patents and Copyrights” (An article by Ayn Rand in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, available for purchase from the Ayn Rand Bookstore)

“Patents and copyrights are the legal implementation of the base of all property rights: a man’s right to the product of his mind.”

“[P]atents are the heart and core of property rights, and that once they are destroyed, the destruction of all other rights will follow automatically, as a brief postscript.”

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