alt Hacker News"intellectual property" only exists because society collectively allows it to. it's not some inviolable law of nature. society (or the government that represents them) can revoke it or give it away.
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layer8 • yesterday at 5:51 PM
The same is true for human rights.
In the EU, an author’s moral rights are similar in character to human rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors'_rights
figassis • yesterday at 11:42 AM
You're alive because society collective allows you to.
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Yes, but that's also true of all other things that society enforces-- basically the ownership of anything you can't carry with you.