Have you seen proposals to do sortition on this? I.e. make the IP rivalrous only on a portion of the market and compensate for the rest.
IP law is a hack that enables a system optimized to produce and allocate rivalrous goods (capitalism), to produce and allocate non-rivalrous goods as well — so we can bake and sell bits like we bake and sell bread. It works, as most hacks do. But not a deep or elegant solution.
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no but it sounds interesting! got a link?
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One thing I've always wondered about IP law - why are houses or the wheel or t shirts not protected by IP? Good thing they aren't but always wondered how these types of designs wouldn't fall under it
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Indeed it is a good thing. IP law is a hold-over of 17th century protectionism that survived because of good branding. It’s just a state granted monopoly. That’s it.
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Have you read Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air? It’s a good analysis of the ways this solution has developed, why and how it works, and how it has become increasingly inelegant for reasons of regulatory capture
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(I wrote a review of it for the International Journal of Communication when it came out https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1262 …)
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Agree... and actually I think the framework is leading us to dangerous places if we keep extending it ...http://thein.fo/b5df90e52a4f573d …
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