Strengthening property rights alienates young voters.
Gregory N Mandel 2014 Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research, Temple University—Beasley School of Law. J.D., Stanford Law School; B.A., Wesleyan University “The Public Perception of Intellectual Property” Florida Law Review, Vol. 66, Iss. 1 [], Art. 5 https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=flr
The finding that younger people prefer weaker intellectual property rights is consistent with past studies that have found similar results when examining attitudes toward file sharing on the Internet.145 There does appear to be a generational divide concerning intellectual property protection. Interesting, here, is that most past research has focused on individual attitudes towards copyright protection, primarily in the context of the Internet, while the present study finds an age effect for the full population, across the patent and copyright conditions. This study appears to be the first to indicate that the generational divide concerning intellectual property rights cuts across intellectual property domains.