IntellectualProperty

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Trying to apply PropertyRights (which were created to manage scarce stuff) to non-scarce ideas and expressions of ideas.

I'm against it. The problems due to capitalism will never be solved by moar capital. Which is all that an appeal to IP protection for creators is.

Quora Answer : In the digital age, how can music rights be protected?

Feb 3, 2020

They shouldn't be.

The problem with music rights or any other "rights" for "intellectual property" is that they are effectively the "enclosure" and privatisation of thought.

We shouldn't build an economy which depends on us being able to monitor, privatize and control thoughts as though it was a scarce commodity like cars.

And that's what any attempt to build an "information economy" or "protect digital rights" is inevitably trying to do.

Give it up.

Humanity has always made music, and art. Even without "the incentives of IP". We'll always be curious and ask questions and do science and philosophy. We all write on Quora for free.

Let's admit that we don't need to squash thoughts and human creativity into a Procrustean bed of "property rights" in order to keep the human artistic and scientific and story-telling spirit alive.