Personally I think it's unhelpful to group together copyrights, trademarks, and patents into the single term "IP". What prevents counterfeiting is trademark la

Personally I think it's unhelpful to group together copyrights, trademarks, and patents into the single term "IP". What prevents counterfeiting is trademark law, which is the most innocuous of the bunch; I haven't seen many cases where something I see as societally beneficial is stopped by trademarks. Copyrights and patents, on the other hand...