{"id":25,"date":"2007-05-21T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-06-04T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:15:05","slug":"intellectual-property-and-other-contradictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/intellectual-property-and-other-contradictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual “Property” and other contradictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software Piracy (‘soft-“wer ‘pI-r&-sE)<\/em>: Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Property, you see, is a tangible good. A natural monopoly. If you give it away, you don’t possess it anymore, you can’t sell it twice. And states and countries levy taxes on it. <\/p>\n

Would you really want copy-able works of art to be “property”? I guess not. I could buy a copy (or the original, since it doesn’t matter, does it?) of your novel, reprint it and sell it cheaper. No. What you want is a monopoly, and this is exactly what you’ve got with copyright. <\/p>\n

Even more detached are patents. Whereas with copyright, you’ve got a monopoly on usage of a given work, even if its not a natural monopoly, with patents you don’t even get that. You don’t have the right to implement a patent, you only have the right to exclude others from doing it. It is, in a sense, the opposite of “property”, a right to keep others from enjoying their property or their monopolies. <\/p>\n

So maybe you should stop making analogies to “property”, or “thievery” or even “piracy” pertaining to said copyrightable work. <\/p>\n

So what you are talking of is “Intellectual Monopoly”<\/strong>. Get used to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Software Piracy (‘soft-“wer ‘pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal. Property, you see, is a tangible good. A natural monopoly. If you give it away, you don’t possess it anymore, you can’t sell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,88,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-politics","category-patents-politics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}