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Didn’t take you for a guy who was anti-property rights… 🤔

I just don't believe someone coming up with a particular mechanical recipie is a justification for violating my property rights if I arrange my property in a similar fashion.

Knowledge is essentially just pattern recognition, I don't believe anyone can own & justly prevent others from using knowledge.

Property is scarce & rivalrous, ideas may be marginally scarce, but they are never rivalrous.

Notice food recipies are not patented because someone was sane enough to recognize that we'd all starve if that was allowed.

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Habanero 2y ago

Let's do a real hypothetical... Lyn Alden is popular here, and she just wrote a book. Lyn's value that she produces is 100% idea based. Would you be fine with someone word for word copying her book and selling it under their name for a profit?

Jeff Swann 2y ago

That's just fraud. I do think they could use their own paper & ink to prink books properly attributed to her & sell them.

Habanero 2y ago

If their are no trademarks or ways to register intellectual property how could you prove it is fraud... maybe the person experienced the exact sequence of ideas as Lyn and wrote them down? If ideas are not subject to rivalry as you claim this would be perfectly acceptable

Jeff Swann 2y ago

That's ridiculous. Time stamp a hash of your book in the blockchain to prove when it was complete. And any word for word reproduction that came after that would be obvious & provable fraud.

Modifications of the general ideas are already legal to publish as your own. You could feed a book into an AI & get it to spit out the same message in defferent words & sell that today.

Habanero 2y ago

But you recognize that the book that Lyn just published is her intellectual property?

Jeff Swann 2y ago

No, I just don't think any "intellectual property" is required to say that it's a fraudulent lie to copy something word for word & then claim the words were the product of your mind & not hers. I am against plagerism.

Habanero 2y ago

I'm with ya there. Plagiarism is bad because it steals another person's ideas and claims them as ones own