Do you also agree that government should not enforce if I borrow your bike while you are not using it if I return it? If not how is that different? You still have the bike and you werent using it while I borrowed it - you just didn’t know I was borrowing it
In universe of perfectly slippery spherical cows, I wouldn't mind. However, in this universe bikes experience wear, I wouldn't be able to spontaneously decide to use it, etc.
You writing a shitty knock off Harry Potter novel "wears" on the brand. Just think your favorite book, movie, or music and think if you would enjoy it if there was really no way to know what was real work and what was just some copy-cat or straight up scammer selling rubbish. Now it is easy; you can not publish your Harry Potter novel due to copyright.
Put it in another way: to become a author in a world where copyright is not a thing is pretty much impossible. Either you have to sell your book digitally with draconian DRM - and you will still get your book stolen or you have to own your own print shop, because if you send your book to any publisher they can just take your work and publish it as their own.
And let's be real the amount your bike wears out from me riding it to the shop and back is so negligible that it won't make a difference in the life span of the bike.
There are good reasons to have copyright - however I do not like how long the copyright is. I've stated it before that in my mind good copyright would be something like 10-20 years or life time of the author whatever comes later. This would allow any creative to hold the right to their world/characters/whatever until they are gone and it wouldn't discourage them from publishing in their old age since even after they have passed their families would still benefit from the works for sometime.
I agree with the business use-case for copyright, trademark, intellectual property, it is a useful collective agreement. To the extent that it is useful.
I thought about this a bit more, and I agree that it is useful that giant software automatons and conglomerates should not get the benefit human creativity until they pass down the value to the creators. Automation should mean less work for everyone, not hyper-profiteering for the few.
1. You mean copying the image that the NFT points to?
The copyright of that image still exists even with the NFT. So existence of NFT doesn't change anything about the picture's copyright. With or without NFT you can not sell prints of the image or use it however you want without permission of the copyright holder.
2. You mean copying the actual NFT i.e. somehow taking over the block in the chain and assigning it to you?
That is a kin to stealing. Why does it matter if the property is digital or physical? This is the kind of mental gymnastics kids use to justify their pirating of entertainment. "I only *copied* this album, I didn't steal it, the artist still has theirs" is such 14 years old's take on the issue. If you don't want to pay for the media you are consuming then don't pay, but then you also shouldn't consume it. This kind of take just shows more how some people haven never created anything of value, yet they want to extract every bit of value from the society.
It sure would be nice if we lived in a world where copyright and patents weren't necessary, but people try to take advantage of everything and anything, so to protect innovation and creativity we need copyright and patents.
