Intellectual property, unlike more tangible assets, can be created without the cost of time or money, and thus the patent and copyright system needlessly creates monopoly ownership of intellectual property that should be provided for free to the public

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A. $43,121. B. $38,000. C. $22,000. D. $21,500.

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