Intellectual "property" is definitely on the short list of the most dumb ideas anyone has ever come up with. Maybe the first people that proposed it were joking and someone took it seriously.
"We'll be able to randomly declare ownership and sole use of completely intangible ideas, dreams, thoughts, methods. Then we'll be able to punish people for thinking of things that we declared that we thought of first"
"Yeah that'll be a great idea, what could go wrong?"
"We'll be able to randomly declare ownership and sole use of completely intangible ideas, dreams, thoughts, methods. Then we'll be able to punish people for thinking of things that we declared that we thought of first"
"Yeah that'll be a great idea, what could go wrong?"
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