An Alien's Angst on Nostr: Ayn Rand was absolutely right on intellectual property. Self-Ownership means ...
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.
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.