Tournament: Springboard Series | Round: 1 | Opponent: A Neg Debater | Judge: Any
~Christine Korsgaard American Philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, April 1983, "Two Distinctions in Goodness", The Philosophical Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184924 ~ MS and ZG
The argument shows how Kant's idea of justification works. It can be read as
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-and, in general, to make the highest good our end.
Freedom is the only innate right and is key to respecting humanity, this means that freedom must be the basis of government Rauscher 2016
~Frederick Rauscher, Philosophy Professor at Michigan State University, 2016, "Kant's Social and Political Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-social-political/ ~ MS and ZG
"There is only one innate right," says Kant, "Freedom (independence
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its universality. Right will be based on the form of free choice.
Patent trolls haven't started targeting the pharmaceutical industry, but will soon. Feldman and Price 2014
~Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of Law, Nicholson W. Price II Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, 2014, "Patent Trolling Why Bio and Pharmaceuticals Are at Risk", Stanford Technology Law Review, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048andcontext=faculty_scholarship ~ MS and ZG
In the ongoing policy and scholarly debates about patent trolls, by far the most
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solutions to the problems raised by monetizers should take this possibility into account.
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The technology industry proves, only policy implementation can stop patent trolls. Feldman and Price 2014
~Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of Law, Nicholson W. Price II Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, 2014, "Patent Trolling Why Bio and Pharmaceuticals Are at Risk", Stanford Technology Law Review, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048andcontext=faculty_scholarship ~ MS and ZG
Our search confirmed our initial suspicions that university patent holdings are likely to provide fertile
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opportunities exist to allow planning for and protecting against abuses in that behavior.
Patent Trolls violate freedom, and can't be universalized. Pievaltolo 2010
~Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa, Department of Political Sciences, "Freedom, ownership, and copyright: why does Kant reject the concept of intellectual property?", July 2nd 2010, http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/chiara/lm/kantpisa1.html~~#athing ~ MS and ZG
Kant asserts that something external is mine if I would be wronged by being disturbed
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to the Roman Law tradition because of conservatism, but because of Enlightenment.
Thus, because Patents pose a threat to freedom by preventing innovation through the ownership of Ideas, vote Aff and reduce IP Protections to stop patent trolls.
Contention 2 – Derivative Works and Variations
~Dan Maloney, Staff Writer and Community Engineer at Hackaday, MS in Biology from University of Rochester, January 30th 2019, "AI Patent Trolls Now on the Job for Drug Companies", Hackaday, https://hackaday.com/2019/01/30/ai-patent-trolls-now-on-the-job-for-drug-companies~~ MS and ZG
Love it or loathe it, the pharmaceutical industry is really good at protecting its
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ones that end up paying the price of progress will be the consumers.
~Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa, Department of Political Sciences, "Freedom, ownership, and copyright: why does Kant reject the concept of intellectual property?", July 2nd 2010, http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/chiara/lm/kantpisa1.html~~#athing ~ MS and ZG
According to Kant, the ius reale cannot be applied to ideas, or,
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based on an empirical contamination, depending on the current state of technology.