LostYonder wrote
Reply to comment by NAB in Realisticly, how bad do you think the negatives of abolishing intellectual property altogether would be? by NAB
To equate creativity with financial gain is ludicrous. Throughout history people created art, wrote, pushed the boundaries of knowledge without reducing it to a capitalist commodity. Indeed, as Ziq points out, the need to profit off of "creativity" stifles creativity by creating dependency. Worse, it transforms that which is created into a commodity - it is no longer an act of creativity, but rather production...
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