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RE: The End of Intellectual Property: On Imagination, Artificial Intelligence, and Procedural Generation
I think the IP protections only work if you have deep (corporate) pockets and can take people to court.
For the average user they do nothing and really stifle creativity.
There is also a lot of theft of work that should be in the commons that gets hijacked by large corporations. Take the examples of Happy Birthday which should always have been public domain and also stories like Aladdin, Snow White etc that Disney has taken control over.
Even though Disney does not have any right to the original stories simply the threat of their legal might can close down and prevent related projects.
Like many things IP law is designed to favour the large corporations and the lawyers.
The little guy just gets squashed from both directions.
Totally agree. Corporations are creations of the government and pretty much any "protection" they claim to provide for the individual (say, in this case, an author) is actually a protection for a corporate entity. IP is just another form of government-provided and government-enforced monopoly.
Yes, agreed, the little guy loses. All this will be a problem as long as money is still a thing ;) .. never know when someone decides to throw the hammer at you!
Yes and as long as some people and organisations have huge amounts of it and use the legal system to squeeze it out of regular people.