This is a horrible idea. Why would an author dedicate years of their life to a book only to make no money off of it. Why would I spend time and money prototyping a new invention only to not see a dime from it as a big company steals my idea.
People need to eat and live. If you can't survive by creating, you do something else instead of creating. How can people not see this very simple concept?
You could literally write the next Lord of the Rings and another company could print and sell the book, sell merch, and make a movie about it and you'd see 0 money. But no one would make movies any more because what's the point?
All these indie games disrupting the gaming industry, gone. Game dev takes a lot of time and money, guess big companies will be the only ones who can afford to do it. The indie guy trying to sell his game for 5$ will be buried by a company that steals it and dumps a few hundred K into it to make a better version and the original creator is left with nothing.
People think about getting an the stuff from companies for free and forget that big companies would benefit most with no protection to the little guy. There is a reason why the rich want to do this, honestly think about it.
IP only protects those who have the means to defend their IP in court, which is rich people and companies.
False. This shows a lack of knowledge around the topic. Off the top of my head I know a specific case where a small grocery store defended it's IP from Apple. In your world that wouldn't work. I mean how did JK Rowling go from a poor person with a story to a rich author. She had no money to defend her IP.
This take is just wrong. Factually.
As a consumer, you can download the book, listen to a free audiobook, or print it yourself if you want to. The company only gets money if they somehow make better physical version than what others have access to.
To me this is not at all akin to ownership or theft.
So if you create a book or song or art piece, you shouldn't be entitled to the money that those make? They should just all be free? I mean sure, but then people will stop doing it, because of it doesn't make money people need to work to pay bills, they can't create.
You're missing how commerce works. A big company can flood the market. They can use better materials and ship faster due to being entrenched.
Like, hey, you could make an iPhone but will you? You can make a movie too, but will it be as good, you can make merch, but will it be as well designed and distributed?
Even in your example, where anyone can make a copy of the book, what about the author? They could pour years and their heart and soul into a book just to make no money, is that ok?
Big companies make money of Shakespeare and the Bible all the time. I don't know why you would think they don't, they very much do.
You're also mixing monopolies with IP. You can have a monopoly with or without IP.
A big company can take that book, print it and sell it without you seeing a dime. Then they can sell merch and make movies off your book without you seeing a dime.
It's pretty obvious, but people think IP only protects companies for some reason
What? They still sell things like merchandise and make money from it. You can make money selling Mickey Mouse hats if you don't own the IP. I feel like you don't understand the situation being presented.
You write a book. I make a copy and sell that exact book because I doesn't exist. I just made money off your book. It's that easy.
No one is assuming, you just have bad reading comprehension coupled with an ego that doesn't allow you to do the very thing you're asking. I'm guessing (because you refuse to have an actual conversation like some ego filled boomer) that you think you're cute and clever because "dying is a death sentence", but you seem to miss the part where people said the "penalty of murder" not the "cost of being murdered." Fuck you are dumb.
Oh boy, people are just out here being confidently incorrect. Either you think the whole world is the US, or you don't realize that the death penalty is outlawed in some states. Big dumb trying to act big smart.
I'm brain washed? Lol, ok, since you want to make this about the people in the argument and not the topic itself fine, but it's still worth pointing out how you're wrong.
You came across as an I'm 13, and this is a deep post. I get it. You hate rich people; we all do, but you clearly have no idea how IP laws work, thinking it's just the guy with the most money running around stealing stuff lol. You have some fantasy in your head where if we open everything up it'll be all better. Ignoring the reality of how laws and lobbying worry, ignoring how patents work, ignoring how you don't need millions to fight an IP case. I mean how did every famous author make money? They owned their own works. You are sorely misinformed about a topic you have more feelings about than facts.
if rich people are the only ones able to afford litigation to support their copyright
This is %100 not the case. Small mom and pop grocery stores have won cases against Apple. You're just making stuff up, and I'm brainwashed? lol
it might as well only exist for them
No. Fully no. There are tons of authors, artists, and inventors who have made money off their inventions. You live in some other reality where no one owns anything right now. What you're saying is they shouldn't have the sole rights to what they create, you want it to be even EASIER for the rich to take. Because right now, despite what your angsty self might think, that's not how it's happening. And what do we get? Oh, I can make my own iPhone now, wow, yah, I'll get right on that.
You are fighting FOR the rich at this point.
You need to take a breath, educate yourself, and speak on the topic once you know it better instead of ranting about how you feel and think it should be, all from a place of ignorance.
And they can look at any small business, be it product, art, any book anyone writes, and they can flood the market, crushing you and profiting of the thing you made. Can people not see how this goes both ways and how this would destroy any desire for creation, knowing rich people will just take it and stomp you out immediately?
Imagine you write the next Harry Potter book or some shit, you're catching on and getting popular and now it's gone. A different company is printing your book and you don't get any money. They're making movies off your book and you get nothing. You go to stores and see merch from your book that you wrote that you'll never see a dime of. This is the world you want? Where the rich can easily just take anything with no defense from the creator?
It doesn't exist? I can write a book and someone can steal it. I can develop a product, shark tank style, and just have a big company steal it.
The fact that you think someone should be able to write a book or make art and not own it is crazy to me. That's just letting rich people own everything because the have enough money to stomp you out.
Cool and how many games are there on the system? With no backwards compatibility for these expensive games? How many shooters are popular on switch? Or is it that they lock down their IP and it's marketed strongly towards children and cashing in on nostalgia.
But sure, nuance doesn't matter. Nintendo is clearly the best system with the best games. I wonder how gaming PCs are even selling anymore, no one even should be playing on anything else it's so obviously good. Jesus...
You seem sad