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Intellectual property doesn't exist. Copyrights exist, patents exist, trademarks exist. But they are all different and none of them are the same as property. It

• woolion 5y ago
  Just to clarify my comment: what I mean by 'it exists' is in a practical sense, i.e. what people mean by 'IP' is enforced by the institutions. It does not matter that much if they are infringing copyright, patents or trademarks law, and in such projects it is very likely all of them. The sad state of affairs is that this term is also industry standard, so somewhat understood by artists as opposed to real laws which are understood by essentially nobody. So for all other meanings IP does not exist indeed, and this is a misleading term. But instead on arguing on these details, it seems more productive to point that there is an already existing alternative that is better for everybody.