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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 15 Apr \ on: Is intellectual property legitimate? AskSN
The Open Source Culture Manifesto summarizes my thoughts on the subject: #883698
A couple of tl;dr highlights:
"Open Source Culture represents the simple idea that ideas are free. That information yearns to be free. We acknowledge that copyright laws are unsuitable for a world that’s highly digitized; where content and information are, and should be, abundant and readily available for anyone."
"First mover advantage is the only real intellectual property right. In another sense, bitcoin is the only real intellectual property anyway. It’s the only thing that’s scarce. All the rest of it can be as abundant as we let it be.
"Intellectual property" are, after all, mere ideas and no one can "own" ideas.
Copyright laws are nothing else than an impediment to creativity and a gatekeeper to knowledge. Charging money for information, which in digital form is near-free to store and transfer, might as well be considered a form of usury."