A pressing problem is the fact that a large slice of Americans believe that the owners are the creators.
The thing about "IP" is also, that differently from "ideas" or "inventions" -- "property" can be sold and bought. Also in the most cases, inventors are small people in big corporations that just get some small and fixed (at least in Germany this is the normal case) money for it. A bargain for the corporation that "owns" from now on the "ideas" and "inventions" of their employees.
Make a price tag on everything and you will get a world not worth living in!
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