Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
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On 05/19/2014 01:42 AM, Lee Winter wrote:
> I said above that intellectual property is the most pure form of
> property. That statement is based on the fact that intellectual
> property is nothing _but_ human labor. Just not physical labor.
> There is no natural or "wild" physical material mixed with the
> thinking. So the property is _only_ human labor.
>
> And we have an unlimited supply because, while real estate is a
> finite supply, the scope of human thought is not finite. So no limit
> applies. And there is no barrier to entry. One cannot erect a fence
> to prevent people from thinking the way one could erect a fence to
> protect a field against trespassing.
One cannot erect a fence to prevent people from thinking, no.
But one can erect a fence to prevent people from using what they've
thought of.
If thinking of something first grants you ownership over it, then what
happens to the second person who independently thinks of the same thing?
Do they also get ownership? (If so, how does that work, given that
"ownership" generally contains or implies the concept of exclusivity?)
If not, then isn't the fact that the first person gained ownership of it
effectively the same thing as setting up fences in the analogy?
It seems to me that the fact that the scope of human thought is not
finite is precisely an argument *against* imposing property concepts on
the abstracts which lie within that scope.
- --
The Wanderer
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them.
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