TheGuySwann on Nostr: And what if the laws are self contradictory? If I come up with a cool idea for a new ...

And what if the laws are self contradictory? If I come up with a cool idea for a new tool, and then someone else takes their own resources, time, and energy to build a similar tool, then there is no way I’m NOT the one who is horribly immoral by sending armed thugs to their property, and destroying and stealing the results of their work.

You cannot own an idea. The very purpose of an idea is to share and communicate it. And everyone is richer for it.

This is the entire idea behind open source and why it remains so successful and such a foundational part of the digital economy.

And all you need is contract law. You do not need copyright law in order for something that is like copyright in practice to naturally emerge within networks.

Either way I agree, radical change is needed to the structure of laws around intellectual property. I say this as a filmmaker, storyteller, and media creator.

There are many more models than, “send government goons to attack anyone who copies my work or uses my ideas for their benefit.”