The fallacy of intellectual property
Back in 2002 I went on a rant on an eGroups mailing list (remember those?) regarding copyright. The resulting essay later became part of a graduate class project in 2004 on how to fix the copyright system.
Going through old files I happened across that essay and project. I've restored the whole project on my website.
The original essay I am reproducing here in its entirety, as it seems it would be relevant to the audience on SteemIt. 16 years later... it's all still true and we're still repeating the same lies fed to us by the copyright cartels.
Originally published 2002 by Larry Garfield
In the fundamental order of the universe, there is matter and there is energy. The sum total of matter and energy in the universe is finite. It cannot be created nor destroyed, and it cannot even be converted from one to the other outside of a nuclear reaction.