Trademarks are theft.
Discussion
How do you think about impersonation? Like pretending to be another person?
If Alice signs a contract that says Bob will deliver a good, but it's actually Charlie that signs it pretending to be Bob, den Charlie has stolen the money from Alice.
He has not stolen the image of the logo from Bob.
Ok that makes sense to me. In your mind, would that apply to corporations too? Like if someone was pretending to be Apple?
Not necessarily. At the core, they are a form of differentiation from would-be scammers and impersonators.
Could you elaborate?
tl;dr, property rights are a solution to the problem of requirement to allocate scarce resources.
Ideas are non-scarce, and if property rights are applied, then it's not protective, but in fact violates the property in actually scarce resources of peaceful people.
https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property
Going to give this a read.
I’m an artist. If I come up with some original characters, are you saying that I shouldn’t have the right to protect my creations? Shouldn’t be able to prevent others from trying to steal my art and then make money from it?
Going to give this a read.
I’m an artist. If I come up with some original characters, are you saying that I shouldn’t have the right to protect my creations? Shouldn’t be able to prevent others from trying to steal my art and then make money from it?
Did I just steal anything from you by right click copy paste?
Are you going to take away my computer because I took away "your" words?
I even got zapped for the cloned text, are you going to try to take my sats now too?
If it’s digital, then I get that. However, if you download my work and start trying to say it’s yours, or sell it as if it was yours, then that’s not cool. That wouldn’t be too far off from ripping a physical piece of art off a gallery wall and selling it on ebay lol
If I claim to be you and sell a product to Alice, then I didn't steal an idea from you, but I stole money from Alice.
No they're not.
They're a shitcoin but people voluntarily pay for them.
No, the trademark holder steals the physical media which the trademark violator owns.
I would say that the theft is from the enforcement of trademark rather than from the trademarks themselves.
It's not immoral to register a trademark to prevent others from doing the same. The theft occurs when the holder of the trademark insists that they be compensated for the unauthorised use of it.
My intuition says that could be right but I don’t know why exactly 😂. Funny how that works. Would you say the same for patents, copyright or TM’s specifically?
Basically all form of intellectual property.
https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property
I think in a similar book Against Intellectual Monopoly (2008) they present the case that it's a customer <-> business dispute rather than a business <-> business dispute. So rather than a business suing for trademark violation, the customer would open a dispute with the business for deception, for making them think they were buying a different product.
Exactly, interesting book, haven't heard of it!
Ideas have people
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