Comment by breck | Hacker News Reader

Comment by breck | Hacker News Reader

Ideas cannot be owned. People can be owned, if you have slavery.

Everyone must unlearn the term "Intellectual Property". These laws are anti-property rights. They are Intellectual Slavery laws (https://breckyunits.com/an-unpopular-phrase.html).

The United States government employs more knowledge workers than all other companies (see NIH, DoD, CDC, NASA, NOAA, NWS, et cetera). Everything they produce is public domain, by law. And yet, the people producing these information products still get paid!

We don't need (c)opywrong laws. We don't need Intellectual Slavery laws. We still have cotton even after the 13th Amendment (we actually have more and better cotton now), and we will still have creative works after the passing of the Intellectual Freedom Amendment (we actually will have more and better creative works) - https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h....

People have a strange tendency to enjoy being rewarded for work they've done.

I suspect that the folks who invest hundreds of millions of dollars into production costs for a movie, rather enjoy the ability to recoup those costs by restricting access to only those who are willing to pay for the privilege.

but what about people getting paid for the invested money of movies made by their ancestors, dead over 50 years ago (and up to more than 100 years ago, whatever is the current copyright term for movies)

do they have a right to enjoy being rewarded for work they didn't do but their ancestors did?

if the intention of those laws was to encourage creativity, how come they're stiffing it more than encouraging without any signs of any government trying to correct the laws to better match their purported intentions?

If your argument is about the absurdity of current copyright terms, you'll find no disagreement here.

We should have stuck with the original 14 + 14 as laid out in the constitution.

> People have a strange tendency to enjoy being rewarded for work they've done.

Did you not read: "The United States government employs more knowledge workers than all other companies (see NIH, DoD, CDC, NASA, NOAA, NWS, et cetera). Everything they produce is public domain, by law. And yet, the people producing these information products still get paid!"

These laws are counterproductive and have terrible second order effects, and are cruel to everyone except a tiny % of the population, just like slavery laws.

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