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By David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 18--MIT'S MAVERICK VIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORTH CONSIDERING: The idea of intellectual property is a wonderful thing, especially as it becomes more widely understood.

Intellectual property laws allow tangible and intangible things like words, music, images, design, software, technology and inventions of all kinds to gain value by protecting that value from theft.

The laws protect the creators through copyrights, trademarks and patents and put up barrie

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