M.Wolowski grants that it is just to recognize the rights of talent (which is not in the least hostile to equality); but he seriously objects to perpetual and absolute property in the works of genius, to the profit of the authors' heirs.

His main argument is, that society has a right of collective production over every creation of the mind.

Now, it is precisely this principle of collective power that I developed in my "Inquiries into Property and Government," and on which I have established the complete edifice of a new social organization.

M.Wolowski is, as far as I know, the first jurist who has made a legislative application of this economical law.
Only, while I have extended the principle of collective power to every sort of product, M.Wolowski, more prudent than it is my nature to be, confines it to neutral ground.

So, that that which I am bold enough to say of the whole, he is contented to affirm of a part, leaving the intelligent hearer to fill up the void for himself.