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    When an individual labors on an unowned object, rights to... — Carmelics
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    When an individual labors on an unowned object, rights to control over that object are generated.

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    • 1.Individuals own their own bodies and labor (self-ownership).
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    • 2.When an individual labors on an unowned object, the labor becomes infused in the object.
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    • 3.For the most part, the labor and the object cannot be separated once mixed.
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    • 1.Labor mixing with an unowned object gives no principled reason to gain the object rather than lose the labor (Nozick's 'tomato juice' objection).
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    • 2.Ownership of labor does not entail ownership of every object with which labor is causally entangled, only the value added by that labor.
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    • 1.Pre-social property rights cannot be established by labor alone; property institutions require prior social recognition and enforcement to be legitimate (Hume, Rawls).
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    • 2.If property rights precede and are independent of social convention, they cannot ground the specific legal entitlements modern IP regimes actually confer.
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    Consider a more formal version of Locke’s famous argument. Individuals own their own bodies and labor—i.e., they are self-owners. When an individual labors on an unowned object, her labor becomes infused in the object and for the most part, the labor and the object cannot be separated. It follows that once a person’s labor is joined with an unowned object, assuming that individuals exclusively own their body and labor, rights to control are generated. The idea is that there is an expansion of ri
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