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intellectual property is conceptually corrupt. at the very least we should be honest and admit that it's all about being continuously paid for things we alread

intellectual property is conceptually corrupt. at the very least we should be honest and admit that it's all about being continuously paid for things we already finished doing (sometimes even generations ago). but I am pretty sure that it will have to get worse, far worse, so bad that a Kafka seems tame before people get convinced that ownership over language is stupid.

TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
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jonahbenton 6y ago
The other way to look at it is to recognize that it is hard to invent and prove the value of something, but easy to copy and pollute once that is done. We are all familiar with unfortunate examples of this. And yes, copyright extension, yadda yadda, but no one is being forced to enjoy, for instance, Mickey Mouse. That they do, and it endures and retains value- why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it? And regarding the Kafka reference, the story of his stories is itself enlightening on this subject. We only have them, and the utility of the reference, through the protective actions of his friend. Were there no Intellectual Property, they would have been burned after his death. Cheers.
- chillacy 6y ago
  > why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it? That masks the fact that IP laws are a form of regulatory capture. The original deal was to gain exclusive ownership _for a limited time_ at the cost of disclosure and understanding that it would eventually enter the public domain. Fun fact, before trademark laws were enforced, baggage makers like Louis Vuitton just increased the quality of their stitching / logograms in order to differentiate themselves. In fact the modern LV prints are a result of this process of trying to make his goods too expensive to counterfeit. Now luxury brands can stamp on inferior quality materials and sell just as well. There's no competitive force to increase quality anymore, these brands can just put their logos on decent-but-not-top-end materials.

TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries

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jonahbenton 6y ago

The other way to look at it is to recognize that it is hard to invent and prove the value of something, but easy to copy and pollute once that is done. We are all familiar with unfortunate examples of this. And yes, copyright extension, yadda yadda, but no one is being forced to enjoy, for instance, Mickey Mouse. That they do, and it endures and retains value- why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it? And regarding the Kafka reference, the story of his stories is itself enlightening on this subject. We only have them, and the utility of the reference, through the protective actions of his friend. Were there no Intellectual Property, they would have been burned after his death. Cheers.

chillacy 6y ago
> why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it? That masks the fact that IP laws are a form of regulatory capture. The original deal was to gain exclusive ownership _for a limited time_ at the cost of disclosure and understanding that it would eventually enter the public domain. Fun fact, before trademark laws were enforced, baggage makers like Louis Vuitton just increased the quality of their stitching / logograms in order to differentiate themselves. In fact the modern LV prints are a result of this process of trying to make his goods too expensive to counterfeit. Now luxury brands can stamp on inferior quality materials and sell just as well. There's no competitive force to increase quality anymore, these brands can just put their logos on decent-but-not-top-end materials.