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Ok but it’s only an imaginary concept until somebody wants to take your stuff.
by rgrieselhuber 4y ago
Ok but it’s only an imaginary concept until somebody wants to take your stuff.
- ronsor 4y ago"Intellectual property" is a fiction not bound by any sane laws of reality. Meanwhile physical property is bound by the fact that you can't create new matter.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoI think that's a little broad, IP should be divided further into: - is there value in keeping it secret / not public? (e.g. commercial software, etc.) - content, things that can be freely distributed without diluting the inherent value of the property In the first case, I think it's analogous to not being able to create new matter. Once the secret is out, you can't put it back in. In the case of content, I'm a lot more open about this but it does bring up all of the tricky questions of ensuring that content creators get paid for their work, etc. (another endless debate)