充满智慧、幽默的哈佛大学公开课-第7讲这是我的土地(12)

You can"t just start mass producing these drugs without paying a licensing fee." So there was a dispute and the pharmaceutical company sued the South African government to try to prevent their buying the cheap generic, as they saw it, pirated version of an AIDS drug. And eventually, the pharmaceutical industry gave in and said, "All right, you can do that."
But this dispute about what the rules of property should be, of intellectual property of drug patenting, in a way, is the last frontier of the state of nature.
你们不能就这样大规模生产，却不付任何专利费。”因此这存在着纠纷，制药公司起诉了南非政府以阻止他们购买这些低价的非专利药，在他们看来，这些都是盗版的艾滋病药。最终，制药公司让步说，“好吧，你们可以这样做。”但这个如何规范药品专利知识产权的财产权纠纷，某种程度上是自然状态最后的边疆了。
Because among nations where there is no uniform law of patent rights and property rights, it"s up for grabs until, by some act of consent, some international agreement, people enter into some settled rules. What about Locke"s account of private property and how it can arise before government and before law comes on the scene?