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We learn and improve from history. Clearly intellectual property is real, there is real value. That's WHY certain people don't want copyright at all, or only limited.
They want free stuff. Why pay for a book....it should be free.
They want to benefit financially from someone else's work. Why write your own stories when you can make a movie based on the excellent story someone else wrote. But having made the movie, the new person wants to own the merchandizing rights to their version of the characters.
Intellectual property wouldn't have value if there weren't patents and copyrights....true. It has to be clear, though, that IP has been a hugely positive societal force.
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