Ok, so still don’t have too much time to go into this, but IP laws have been around a long time, with the first showing up with the Greeks and Romans and even the Egyptians. The Greeks established their original IP laws over recipes! No joke. A person with a proprietary recipe was granted Intellectual Property Rights over their recipe in this instance for a period of a year. I can’t remember exactly what the Roman’s used them for, I need to look it up, the Egyptians used them for art- mainly pottery. These civilizations and the civilizations since have recognized that human creativity is a bedrock of a thriving society and that creativity needs to be protected to thrive. Americans did wage a war with England over IP laws when they wanted to establish themselves as an industrial power- you can do the research there, so IP theft is also deep in our roots, but once it was all sorted out, America became a sort of IP law superpower. Here we are today. The current push by a very few to diss these is a push for themselves to make more money and have more power. They want to avoid the lawsuits on the backend with AI applications, etc. it is an affront to democratic process, personal agency and consent. Laws can be tweaked if they are not truly benefiting creators and this is not that. Following proper IP protocol hardly impedes creativity- only profitability. You are easily able to use snippets of any song while having fun mixing in your basement… only when you want to publish that song for your own profit must you consider it. There is much more to say, but not enough time to say it today. These efforts by these evil actors will eventually if not immediately be futile. The human spirit has always and will always prevail. Be well.
