Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
Against Intellectual Property [pdf] by Stephan Kinsella
“A realistic view of intellectual monopoly is that it is a disease rather than a cure. It arises not from a principled effort to increase innovation, but from an obnoxious combination of medieval institutions—guilds, royal licenses, trade restrictions, religious and political censorship—and the rent-seeking behavior of would-be monopolists seeking to fatten their purse at the expense of public prosperity.”
—Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine in Against Intellectual Monopoly, p. 244.