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Intellectual property monopolies limit access and utilization of ideas and tools to broader society in exchange for privileging a small group worshipped as "the
by em3rgent0rdr 3y ago
Intellectual property monopolies limit access and utilization of ideas and tools to broader society in exchange for privileging a small group worshipped as "the creators".
- 23B1 3y agoThat sounds like a good argument, but I'm not seeing how protecting a comedian's IP translates to limiting access to ideas and tools... that benefit broader society.
- salawat 3y agoThe same thing that protects that comedian's IP, is the same thing that makes the source designs for lithographic masks for semiconductor fabrication some of the most sensitive IP in the world! Who it is making the claim doesn't matter half as much as what the knock on consequences to jurisprudence at large.
- 23B1 3y agoIt does matter who is making the claim because - I think you'd agree – there needs to be some reformation of IP law. But I'll never support anything that says a comedian can't protect her book.