Even without copyright there are trade secrets, not to mention trademarks and patents. Maybe we could get rid of the latter, but I think we’d need to be pretty heavily into socialist utopia before considering nixing the former two!
Trademarks and patents are very different from copyright. Trademarks especially so because they aren't designed to "own" knowledge, just to prevent confusion about who made a product or what it is.
"Intellectual property" is an abomination of a term because it conflates 3 separate mechanisms with differing goals, pretending that they're related in any meaningful sense.
Patents protect a process. Trademarks protect identity. Copyright protects knowledge. Disparate mechanisms for disparate goals.
Not at all. I am amazed by how badly copyright is understood.
You can buy a physics book, learn about physics from it, and use that knowledge somewhere else. That's totally legal, an copyright doesn't prevent you from doing that at all.
My country believes in this "intellectual property" thing so much that our copyright, patent and trademark act's name translates to "An Act on Intellectual and Artistic Works".
We need different perspective to copyright. Besides - what is a trade secret 10, 20, 30 years ago is a common wiki article now… very often if not always.
The idea of people owning information is really beyond comprehension for me. There’s no patent for ideas, only for mechanisms or implementations.
Besides we’re already tossing world’s knowledge in our palms, all the copy shit seems so irrelevant.
I’m not against closed source or keeping trade secrets. But once a story becomes public it should be accessible at no cost or else we get where we are atm.
