Imagine a world where intellectual property protection did not exist. The motivation of intellectual property law is to encourage innovation and development. What would happen if our existing legal protections were eliminated or became too difficult or expensive to enforce? Who knows exactly what would occur, but one thing is predictable: humans would not stop innovating.

How could people and corporations be encouraged to innovate if they could never develop something first and sell it later? With all the commotion around the music industry these days, it’s been impossible not to put some thought into it. Over the past two years, I’ve convinced myself that our current concepts of intellectual property should be abandoned. I’ve distilled my thinking down to a Death of Intellectual Property one-pager.

Now to find someone interested in building the infrastructure.

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