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"intellectual property" only exists because society collectively allows it to. it's not some inviolable law of nature. society (or the government that represent
by arccy 1y ago
"intellectual property" only exists because society collectively allows it to. it's not some inviolable law of nature. society (or the government that represents them) can revoke it or give it away.
- impossiblefork 1y agoYes, but that's also true of all other things that society enforces-- basically the ownership of anything you can't carry with you.
- CaptainFever 1y agoYes, that is why (most?) anarchists consider property that one is not occupying and using to be fiction, held up by the state. I believe this includes intellectual property as well.
- figassis 1y agoYou're alive because society collective allows you to.
- lioeters 1y agoA person being alive is not at all similar to the concept of intellectual property existing. The former is a natural phenomenon, the latter is a social construct.
- layer8 1y agoThe same is true for human rights. In the EU, an author’s moral rights are similar in character to human rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors'_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors'_rights