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Originally Posted by PKFFW
For the sake of debate I will grant you that.
So if we are treating IP the same as PP why should I not be allowed to copy your IP? I am allowed to copy your PP after all?
ETA: You seem to want to apply all the positives of PP to IP and remove all the negatives that go with it. While this is completely understandable from a selfish human nature point of view, I don't think there is much rationale for it besides an attitude of "gimme gimme gimme" that you accuse others of.
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Perhaps You can explain what you mean by copying my physical property. Are you saying that I can have a chair....and you can make yourself a chair...and since that’s ok, it should be ok for your to copy the books I write?
I’m sure you realize that there are trademarks, patents and copyright type laws that would indeed prevent you from making and selling exact copies of Idea furniture.
But, unlike with fiction, I do support time limits on patents because there isn’t an infinite number of ways to join wood together.
And yes, I agree that the “gimme gimme” accusation can be flipped. How greedy farmers are for thinking that their farm should be able to go to their children. Or that land can be owned in the first place. There is nothing special about intellectual property. If one doesn’t respect the concept of property....even physical property can be deemed “no longer yours but ours”. I won’t go further down that trail as it’s politics.
Society is best served by encouraging creation. Without ownership, creation will suffer.