Ayn Rand was absolutely right on intellectual property.
Self-Ownership means ownership of your labor whether intellectual or physical. The fact that it is difficult to enforce just means that better ways of enforcing it must be developed.
We are not a collective consciousness. My thoughts are not your thoughts. My intellectual abilities aren't the property of the group and neither are the things I make using them.
Property is both tangible and intangible. If you don't own your own consciousness - your Self - and the fruits of it's work, then you don't own anything.
Ignoring intellectual property is theft. It's far worse than physical theft for the reasons mentioned above - its a fundamental attack on all forms of property. The fact that one may want to use and claim another's ideas as their own does not make them so.
Human history makes it pretty obvious that minds are not interchangeable; ideas are not yanked out of some collective commons. Multiple discovery occurs and that's legitimate, yet that's not what we're talking about the vast majority of the time.
An Alien's Angst
npub15e…5uz8m
2023-09-12 00:47:08
in reply to nevent1q…jjr9
Author Public Key
npub15e33vf8dx0k0ea22w4qzayc7r8xg07y7h3x7c39glxu8vf96rghs65uz8mPublished at
2023-09-12 00:47:08Event JSON
{
"id": "807c396939c37473cbc5ef97a2e0a0a2bed2fa966f158ade088004af1c848b32",
"pubkey": "a6631624ed33ecfcf54a75402e931e19cc87f89ebc4dec44a8f9b87624ba1a2f",
"created_at": 1694479628,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"588e91225b6c81a815c92c29030308b6c961b04878cc9fef3ba1ad0718db86ae",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"ec99edc5567e02815fb15020285e2fa8390931cedf59c83d6bb2c5f6ee1530b9"
]
],
"content": "Ayn Rand was absolutely right on intellectual property.\n\nSelf-Ownership means ownership of your labor whether intellectual or physical. The fact that it is difficult to enforce just means that better ways of enforcing it must be developed.\n\nWe are not a collective consciousness. My thoughts are not your thoughts. My intellectual abilities aren't the property of the group and neither are the things I make using them. \n\nProperty is both tangible and intangible. If you don't own your own consciousness - your Self - and the fruits of it's work, then you don't own anything. \n\nIgnoring intellectual property is theft. It's far worse than physical theft for the reasons mentioned above - its a fundamental attack on all forms of property. The fact that one may want to use and claim another's ideas as their own does not make them so. \n\nHuman history makes it pretty obvious that minds are not interchangeable; ideas are not yanked out of some collective commons. Multiple discovery occurs and that's legitimate, yet that's not what we're talking about the vast majority of the time.",
"sig": "8c9b4a3c67e64c02e989583c0489488dbf8771dd4da0200aa893443141d2b33a219cbc951e0469d6ae62b8fea5d110f292639aa4780ec3623402c6264ebbfd4a"
}