When you say “isn’t sellable” do you mean “is immoral to sell”?
Seems like this may be what’s driving the disagreement.
I’d agree with nostr:npub1y02f89rpykzhqmrjjz99uwgyl9gh06sg0vpjmklu62rzxpx8mxps7zfvpl that it’s technically possible to exchange money for an object with 0s and 1s burned into it like a CD, or for that matter a promise to connect computers together and tickle each other’s wires just right so the recipient ends up with 1s and 0s in all the correct places.
That's not what I said though.
Intellectual property is the claim of a product developer to own the commercialization of that product.
If you develop a product and I want to sell your product to the market, we enter into a voluntary deal to accomplish that.
If I just start producing your product commercially without a deal with you, then I'm operating on the fraudulent (non-voluntary) side of things.
Nope, I wouldn't. Fraud would be for instance if I make a copy of your book and sell it misrepresenting myself as the author. I'd be lying to the buyer.
Sure, I don’t think I agree with the broader claims you’re making yet. But I do agree with the narrow one that selling info is technically possible.
RE: “If I just start producing your product commercially without a deal with you, then I'm operating on the fraudulent (non-voluntary) side of things.”
——This must be assuming there’s a contract between you and the other party - right? Like some valid way that you’ve told them you won’t use their work.
When we buy a cd, we are agreeing to buy the cd + the accompanying license that allows us full personal use of that CD, but not the right to commercially produce more of those CD's to sell. We can do whatever we want with the CD, but we have not bought a license to sell new copies of it.
