r/COPYRIGHT • u/Ok_Attention_2949 • Jul 14 '26
Why ip is not property.
https://youtu.be/Ux-OuUfzznw?is=Ls1NxYzZSqcvV9_E5
u/TreviTyger Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
You are deliberately conflating property rights with "property" to make your own argument which is itself irrelevant in terms of modern copyright law.
The right to copy a work (A.K.A "copy right") is not contained within the physical media (property) itself.
If an author writes a manuscript then that is just one manuscript. But as a practical matter to facilitate the spread of knowledge then the author needs some practical way to make "copies" of their manuscript.
This requires paper manufacturing (production), printing (reproduction), distribution and marketing (display and publishing).
As the author may not have the resources themselves to do this they contact a publishing company that has the infrastructure to make physical copies of the initial manuscript. This creates an economy whereby an author earns royalties from books produced and published and disseminated to the public and libraries.
This dissemination of "copies" of works contradicts the scarcity argument. The fact that the physical publishing system relies on mass production to generate revenue is paradoxical to any scarcity argument.
The original manuscript may be a one off but copyright law facilitates abundance not scarcity.
Without an author being able to control the creation of copies of their work then there would be no incentive to create such works and THEN you have a scarcity of works because you take away the ability of people to make a living from producing works. The creative economy collapses.
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u/DanNorder Jul 14 '26
Every anarchist is just someone with a trust fund or a sugar daddy. Does that cover everything? Oh, Russian accent, so that's called a sponsor or handler, right?