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Originally Posted by kennyc
This was in response to Harmon's Aether posting. Just to show it can go both ways -- sometimes the things we believe turn out to be false, sometimes true.
Intellectual Property is the curvature of space time.  |
It might as well be when it starts making sense.
I have several problems with IP:
1) if it's property, why does it revert to public domain after a time? It would make sense for it to stay a property and licence forever. It's said that it's not really a property, but it's called property. Bad naming.
2) parts of it are property as well. With small enough parts, it's likely that different creators created the same part independently, so the latter one is in copyright violation. Where does it stop? There is a good short story about society in which people are allowed to trademark words, and have communication systems good enough to detect every use of that word and demand payment. Is that what it'll be?
It's a bit like Ptolemeus and Copernican systems of the movement of planets to me - one just makes more sense.
Anyway, those seem to be basic principles that contradict, and from which the rest of argument and disagreement originates.
Maybe it's that I have a bad memory and I remember everything like in mathematics, re-deriving it from simplest laws I can remember. People with a good memory who can just remember and apply thousand pages of laws might not have problem with such theories.