Oddbean new post about login | logout 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.