> artworks and medicine have been produced for ages without IP law;
This is bullshit. What are they even talking about? I think medicine and movies/art and IP were invented around the same time. Last 100 may be 200 years years.
In our 100,000 year history that links them pretty well.
Wikipedia - "The modern concept of intellectual property developed in England in the 17th and 18th centuries"
That's obviously older than medicine. Are they including leaches and prayer and birth control which is just a light dose of poison? Well good luck to their world were you die at 40 and art is a few shitty books you'll never get to read.
I assume they build on other crappy (10 year old) blogs and think living in the old days was amazing where everyone lived to 90, because the 'infants' died young that they had such a low life expectancy and everyone had split sleeps and short work days.
Lots of countries have little enforcement of Intellectual Property. What are their living conditions like? How many good local movies do they make? (And if you say Nollywood, you have to explain how it's not just a gangsta related flex)