I believe "intellectual property" makes art worse, an art student with a passion can make a better star wars movie than Disney, but we don't get to see it because Disney owns the story of "Luke Skywalker" what a load of bullshit.
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You are being disingenuous. No student will make a better movie, because a movie is a plot, but also the work of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars. No student has that, no matter how good are his ideas.
Why would anyone risk millions if everyone can watch it for free?
Also, there would be no R&D if people (companies are just that) didn't risk millions or billions. No new drugs, as manufacturing them has a negligible cost. No new robots, no new software nor new vehicles....don't get me started on aeroplane development costs....
I don't know about art, but in every other realm, people that say "copying is not theft are either lying or don't understand basic economics.
Its a valid discussion to have, because some of the best minds seem to be confused about the concept of agreements.
This is a trademark issue, not a copyright issue. You're adding to the argument with more strawmen. Trademark is a law protecting impersonization, and I don't believe the validity of this law is part of this discussion.
I don't mean to be disingenuous nor do I mean to being up strawmen I guess it's on me that I can't put across my points well enough, so maybe I'll park this conversation until I can better articulate.