Why is the public domain (in terms of intellectual property) useful?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    By the same argument, owning physical things is an unnatural state. For millennia, the idea of a human being owning a physical object was completely foreign.

    People made tools and used them as necessary, then discarded them for another person to use. It’s only in the most recent 5% of human existence that private property had existed.