similarly, a filmmaker like clint eastwood can paycheck a -- make a movie, choose to make a movie about chris kyle"american sniper." he wouldn't get the opportunity to make that movie if he had to go to a government board and ask bureaucrats to fund it. instead, he has property rights and the free market gives him the opportunity to make that movie. finally, consider the importance of intellectual property rights in securing a free society. all property rights disperse and distribute power. the more people who own property, the more freedom there is distributed through a society. and this holds true just the same for intellectual property. copyright owners have the independence they need to choose to speak how they want and the economy opportunity to pursue the right to speak and, thus, the copyright has been called by the supreme court the engine of free expression. similarly, an inventor can walk their own path. inventors often are doubted before they are heralded. people can't believe that their inventions will work. irwin jacobs, the company that made the mobile telecommunications revolution p