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Pure knowledge cannot be monetized. But translating the knowledge so that it can be useful to others takes work.
So if someone writes a great comic book or mystery story, should they not be allowed to charge for it? Should they be forced to have it taken with no compensation? That takes away the incentive to be creative.
Do you think the same about patents? If you created a new airfoil or a real hoverboard, should others be able to make it without your approval?
Just to create one product and live off its revenue forever discourages creativity. Current copyright laws favor large corporations too much. You can see the creative bankruptcy with companies such as Disney.
No argument from me there. But getting it stolen right out of the box only favors big money at the expense of freethinking innovators.
You are right, but that's a totally different conversation, albeit related. Disney's 100-year protection push is far out of balance. It's an issue of a reasonable balance that incentivizes individuals while also making sense.
Creative stuff should be monetized unless the creator wants to freely share, it’s the work and creation of the individual mind. How ever, relating to philosophy, mathematics, alchemy/chemistry , astronomy, language, literature, any form of knowledge and wisdom that is simply the rediscovery of universal laws, should never be with a price tag. The inner workings of creation do not belong to any single man, and this knowledge and wisdom should be granted freely to all who want to know.