Zkuq on 03 August 2025
| VAMatt said: As I've said elsewhere, the whole notion that one can own ideas and prevent others from using those ideas in their own works is nonsensical. Copyright and patent law is bullshit. It is antithetical to human progress. |
I don't think e.g. very many books would get written without copyright, because copying is so easy nowadays, and I don't think we want a world where literature isn't doing too well. That said, to me, copyright laws definitely seem too protective. Not sure about how beneficial patents are though, but there's definitely some overreaches there, so patent laws should probably be laxed too - it's just a matter of how much.
