6. Letter to McPherson, 336, quoted in John Perry Barlow, "Economy of Ideas," Wired (March 1994): 84. For a careful scholarly explanation of the antimonopolist origins of eighteenth-century ideas such as Jefferson's, see Tyler T. Ochoa and Mark Rose, "The Anti-Monopoly Origins of the Patent and Copyright Clause," Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 49 (2002): 675-706. One scholar has offered a thoughtful critique that suggests Jefferson's views were not, in fact, representative either of the times or of the attitudes of the other framers toward intellectual property. See Adam Mossoff, "Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought about Patents? Reevaluating the Patent 'Privilege' in Historical Context," Cornell Law Review 92 (2007): 953-1012.
7. Letter to McPherson, 328.
8. Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper (February 10, 1814), in Thomas Jefferson, Writings, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (New York: Library of America, 1984), 1321.
9. Letter to McPherson, 333.
10. Ibid., 333-334.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 335.
13. See ibid., 333-335.
14. Readers interested in learning more about this fascinating man could begin with George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, London ed. (Longmans, 1876).
15. Thomas Babington Macaulay, speech delivered in the House of Commons (February 5, 1841), in The Life and Works of Lord Macaulay: Complete in Ten Volumes, Edinburgh ed. (Longmans, 1897), vol. VIII, 198 (hereinafter Macaulay Speech).