Quote from: Abu Babu Bubabu on May 12, 2017, 01:41:20 AM

Quote from: giantdragon on May 12, 2017, 01:11:34 AM

Corporations have lobbied IP laws to protect their monopolies and stiff real innovations!

You can incentivize creativity with another means - state funding, crowdfunding, donations, advertising, support etc.

Creativity does not have to be 'incentivized'. It just has to be 'not stifled'.

The key to a dog running is to take off it's leash, not "give it something" or "teach it something".

What's up with the mentality that the government has anything whatsoever to do with creativity, aside from being able to harm it?

So who should pay the big costs of developing a movie? Because while individual piracy is rampant, television stations and cinemas can't get away with copying their work without pay so the movie studios survive.

Who should pay the costs of developing a drug? These cost enormous amounts of money to develop safely, and while there are issues with current patent laws, at the very least they ensure drugs are continually developed despite some of them running into costs into the billions.

Should writers make books for free? If anyone can freely copy their books then the publishers won't pay the writer after he sends in a copy for review.