5 ms·
Intellectual property is not property, its a misnomer. A bluray disk is property. Do you own it or no?
by aydyn 2y ago
Intellectual property is not property, its a misnomer. A bluray disk is property. Do you own it or no?
- ameister14 2y agoHe stole those too
- LeoPanthera 2y agoHe was stealing the discs. Those are actual property.
- aydyn 2y agoI am disputing the point about intellectual property.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- gruez 2y ago>Intellectual property is not property Look up the definition of "property". You'll find that it says nothing about it needing to be tangible. It literally just means "something that can be owned".
- aydyn 2y agoThen do you own your bluray or no?
- oniony 2y agoYou don't own the bluray you stole from your employer.
- aydyn 2y agoLets say hypothetically you bought it from BestBuy. You own it or not?
- oniony 2y agoYou own the physical disc, but I would imagine the content is licensed.
- aydyn 2y agoWhat you are saying is inherently contradictory. The "physical disc" is comprised of tiny peaks and valleys. If I "own the disc" why can I not do whatever I want with those peaks and valleys?
- ameister14 2y agoOwnership is classically a combination of a bundle of rights. You have most of those rights, but you do not have all of them.
- oniony 2y agoNo, what I'm saying is not at all contradictory. The separation between the physical medium and artistic work it carries is not a complicated concept to understand. It is for the same reason you do not own the story in a book you buy. You have a physical stack of paper that's yours to do whatever you want with: read it for your pleasure, prop open the door with it, burn it if you like. However the concept of the story that the book conveys – the particular ordering of the words – is not yours, it (by default) belongs to the person who created it, as they put effort into the creation of that art. Imagine the world you are fantasizing. You spend a year writing a book, you go to a publisher to have it published. You give them a copy for consideration. You don't hear anything back and then, later, find they have taken your story and published it themselves. It becomes a top selling book. Intellectual property rights are originally envisaged to protect artistic creators from this exploitation, otherwise why would they bother to create in the first place? (Unfortunately, there is still a lot of large organisations exploiting artists, as they largely control the media that exposes people to art in the first place. This means artists have to sign away their rights in order to get an advance and the promise of exposure.)