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Yes it should. Property is property. It is insane that some property somehow becomes unownable after an arbitrary length of time. If I own land, that land will
by Asooka 3y ago
Yes it should. Property is property. It is insane that some property somehow becomes unownable after an arbitrary length of time. If I own land, that land will go to my heirs or, if none exist, on auction. Then someone else will own it. It won't become permanently public and non-property. Intellectual property ought to work the same way. The great part is that we can create an infinite amount of intellectual property, so everybody has an equal opportunity to own as much as their fingers can write. Land is finite, art is infinite. If there were a lot of art available entirely for free, people would never pay for any new art and we will stagnate.
I guess patents could be forcibly taken by the government and licenses minted for free, if the current holder is determined to be maliciously setting the price for licensing too high and holding back science.
- raincole 3y ago> Property is property. It is insane that some property somehow becomes unownable after an arbitrary length of time. If I own land, that land will go to my heirs or, if none exist, on auction. Then someone else will own it. Yes and in almost every country properties like land are taxed by their values. If copyright lasts forever, it should be taxed by its value too (not by income!).
- beej71 3y agoI see no reason why the laws around IP need to be the same as the laws for real estate.
- account42 3y agoSo-called "intellectual property" is no property at all but a government-protected monopoly on distribution. You do not "own" copyright. This monopoly isn't free for society - both the enforcement and the loss due to restrictions on other peoples basic rights (namely, freedom of speech).