You know... books, movies, branding, trademarks...
You live in a world where these things don't exist?
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Hey nostr:npub1v9qy0ry6uyh36z65pe790qrxfye84ydsgzc877armmwr2l9tpkjsdx9q3h. You offered the challenge... I accepted. Defend your position
No reply nostr:npub1v9qy0ry6uyh36z65pe790qrxfye84ydsgzc877armmwr2l9tpkjsdx9q3h? I get it... it's a ridiculous statement and completely indefensible.
Property must have a boundary defined and defended. Without a boundary, it’s just nature.
Information, to be property, must also have a boundary. A secret has this property. This is what makes Bitcoin intellectual property—only the keys, which are secret, can move coin.
Other forms of information (books, etc.) have no boundary once shared. Without a boundary, they’ve reverted to a state of nature. Like a glass of water poured into the ocean.
Property does not cease being a property if you fail to defend it... The British didn't lose control of their colonies and then say, " Don't worry it's not a property anymore... it's just nature now"
Also by your own logic, if the secret of your bitcoin keys becomes known by a malicious entity, in that moment bitcoin ceases to be an intellectual property and transforms into ??? (nature?)
IP is a ridiculous proposition. How can one claim property of an idea? What is even an idea tangibly? If you think about it, it makes no sense.
A physical book can be someone’s property. But claiming ownership of the specific arrangement of words on someone else’s piece of paper is just wrong. Just because the state uses coercion and violence to make this the case does not change the fact that it’s nonsensical. If you want a comprehensive argument against IP, see the book “against intellectual monopoly”.
I think the co-mingling of the idea of individual control being necessary and being property is the problem here.
Charles Schultz created Peanuts and all the characters in that universe ( Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, ect.) This is an intellectual property.
If I make a bastardized Peanuts of this I am stealing and degrading his intellectually work, especially if I claim to be the creator of Peanuts.
TLDR: Just because something is easy to steal does not make it yours and does not make it stop being a property.
What is being stolen?
If I see something and write it down on my piece of paper, what have I taken from you? You still have your piece of paper with your peanut drawing.
Are you claiming ownership on the specific arrangement of graphite on a piece of paper?
Claiming ownership of ideas is ridiculous. You can claim to be the person who came up with an idea, but not the idea itself. Well unless you use the force of the state to make it so
Charles Schultz has a large vested interest in keeping the integrity of the Peanuts universe; with it he makes books, movies, merchandise, ect.
If I start producing a Peanuts comic and I portray Charlie Brown as a meth head that starts kicking Snoopy and pimping out Lucy, it will degrade the intellectual property that he has built and will cost him in lost revenue from missing ticket sales on movies, lower book sales, ect.
Just because I can easily do this does not make it right (it will cause monetary harm to Mr. Schultz), it also does not negate Peanuts being an intellectual property.
