5 Responses to The Internet is undefeated: Bill *plagiarism for me but not for thee* Ackman edition

1. Invertedlogic says:

   January 16, 2024 at 15:25

   This question is only tangentially related to your post, but it just came to me. Would plagiarism matter if intellectual property laws never existed?

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   • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

     January 17, 2024 at 03:15

     or in the alternative: why should plagiarism matter at all in a world with IP laws?

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     • Invertedlogic says:

       January 17, 2024 at 03:43

       “ If a tree falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

       In all seriousness, but doesn’t IP laws give creators the incentive to protect their ideas?

       Then again my thinking could be flawed on this one.

       Although, Anarcho-capitalists have an interesting take on IP. But is it possible for private law enforcement of Ip?
     • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

       January 17, 2024 at 13:29

       great points! perhaps we can think of this topic in terms of “decentralized and informal social norms” versus “centralized and formal law”
     • Invertedlogic says:

       January 17, 2024 at 20:10

       That’s a great point because in the Enterprise of Law, Bruce L. Benson discusses how certain tribes in North America had a “tacit understand” not to plagiarize the chants of other shamans or they risked being ostracized.

       I also think that blockchain technology could also facilitate private law enforcement of IP. Especially with the trade of NTFs. Couldn’t it be coded that whoever purchases one of the nonfungible tokens that contains images, that the owner possess full control over the image?