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Intellectual property isn't really property -- it's a restriction on what others can do with their property.
by dantheman 8y ago
Intellectual property isn't really property -- it's a restriction on what others can do with their property.
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- claudiawerner 8y agoBy the same argument, land isn't really property, it's a restriction on what others can do with that area of the earth. I'd say that this is an argument against property in general rather than an argument against intellectual property, but my modus ponens is probably your modus tollens. Intellectual property was created by capital with help of the state, and all other forms of property were created prior to capital but were instrumental for it with its support by the state (police and armies and enclosure). Only when capital realized that it needed to expand did it monopolize ideas as "intellectual property"; but make no mistake, it did exactly the same in the 16th and 17th centuries in Western Europe to common property.