The pointer is from Tyler Cowen at marginal revolution .
Yes, I am working on a trick to levitate the Patent and Trademark Office. I'll let a real magician, like David Copperfield make it disappear.
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Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
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Magic Without Monopoly
Informal "protection" of the incentive to innovate in magic tricks is discussed
in this paper . No IP monopoly required.
[Posted at 09/05/2007 03:24 PM by William Stepp on Innovation 
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Your "in this paper" link is incorrect. It links to a content-free page that is titled "ht...64" and simply contains the level-one heading "Service Unavailable".
Apparently you linked to the wrong machine and it isn't even a Web server, nevermind linking to merely the wrong file.
P.S. first attempt to post this silently failed. What gives?
[Comment at 09/06/2007 11:36 AM by ffgdfhfd]
The link works fine as far as I can tell. It links to paper; here is the title and author copied and pasted from the article:
Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law
JACOB LOSHIN Yale Law School -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 25, 2007
[Comment at 09/06/2007 06:00 PM by Bill Stepp]
The link was evidently corrected shortly after I posted the original comment -- which, of course, is exactly what was supposed to result.
P.S. this form has terrible usability. Having to scroll *up* to find the submit button after filling in the form is just plain boneheaded design.
[Comment at 09/10/2007 04:05 PM by None of your beeswax]
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