• AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com
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    17 hours ago

    I’m sure all the scientists love it when you tell them they won’t be credited for their work and literally anyone will be able to take their idea and do whatever they want with it, that’ll do so much to help foster humanity’s innate desire to learn and be creative

    Literally yes. Why do you think every fucking scientist loves sci-hub and is against Elsevier, and even submits their papers to arxiv for anyone to read for free? You clearly have no experience in the field and are talking out of your arse

    What does it mean for corporations to not exist?

    Through the existence of exclusively public institutions, whether cooperative or government-owned, which don’t work in direct competition but either in cooperation or in emulated competition (I.e. a contest instead of a struggle to drive each other off business).

    And it’s about coercing people who won’t act in good faith with the system into doing so

    This literally doesn’t happen in public research.

    Most people would keep a secret to make money especially if their livelihood depended on it

    In public research it works backwards. The more you publish (i.e. make available to the public), the more you earn. You really don’t seem to understand the concept of public research.

    A corporation will steal your creation and outcompete you in profiting from it if given the opportunity.

    Great, so make knowledge accessible to everyone and abolish private corporations.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah some of what I’ve said doesn’t portray my arguments well. In trying to explain that IP law is a process that protects creatives and without it creative endeavours would be eroded. This is not a point of debate. Virtually every country has an IP law. IP law doesn’t make it so people won’t share their ideas, it makes it so people who do are rewarded.

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        7 hours ago

        IP law is a process that protects creatives and without it creative endeavours would be eroded. This is not a point of debate

        How is it not a point of debate? I’m giving you arguments as to why it’s a very good point of debate and you don’t seem to be able to respond to them.

        Virtually every country has an IP law

        Virtually every country also has homeless people and I disagree with that, that’s just an argument from majority, kinda useless to me.

        IP law doesn’t make it so people won’t share their ideas, it makes it so people who do are rewarded

        I already explained how there are already existing mechanisms without IP pushing for the rewarding of intellectual production, such as the “publish-or-perish” system in public research. You may very well have arguments against it, but the fact of the matter is that you don’t need IP as a mechanism to reward people who engage innovation/creative/research processes. Public openings at institutions (whether a national orchestra, a research institute or a cinema academy with subsidised production), contests and grants… IP is not the only method for material rewarding of intellectual creation, which is what you’re trying to argue.

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            7 hours ago

            Everyone does it because every country works through the capitalist mode of production, not because it’s a necessity of production.

            How about you answer to the rest of my comment?