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Mormons and Intellectual Property

October 3, 2009
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One might think that property, a uniquely secular notion, has no truck with ecclesiastic authorities. After all, there’s supposedly no property in Heaven. Instead, everything is free up there, and there’s no such thing exclusive use and the right to refuse. Jesus said …. never mind. To show how daft the notion of property is to matters of religion, consider a case I stumbled on recently. In it, the court said: Plaintiff, God, claims that Defendant university is infringing his copyright by using his “autobiography,” namely, “Bible,” without paying him royalties. Complaint at 2. Plaintiff seeks 9.3...

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