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@ mleku
2025-05-31 13:06:25
gifts from God (inspiration, intangible items) have no value but what we put them to use for, or in other words, their value is not intrinsic but only in how we spend our rightfully acquired property to implement it
to share the gifts while at the same time punishing reuse is shitting on the gift
copyright is assigning personal value to a common property
nobody owns language, do they?
all ideas are just arrangements of language
claiming ownership on language is an offense against everyone else in the universe who legitimately acquired tangible goods
do you know of the case of the first english translation of the bible, known as the "Vulgate"?
one guy was given a copy of the translation and made a copy, and the judge (King John) attributed tangible property status to the text which is a common property
this man made a copy of the whole text in his own time, with his own hands, with his own paper and his own ink, and had a rightful claim to the copy which cost him a lot to produce
this wrongful precedent in jurisprudence opened the gate to copyright law which essentially grants the "owner" of this *imaginary property* an exclusive right over a piece of the common wealth, and was quickly exploited to the point where 500 years later the british parliament made a law called the Statute of Monopolies, which forbid the king from granting a monopoly of any kind.
this law should have nullified the precedent of the copyright of the vulgate but the parliament, and the mercantilist sponsors of the parliament, continued to institute laws that violated this law
i know about this because i researched this body of law as a part of a defense against the claim of the state to acquire my personal physical property on the basis that i was violating a monopoly on using the common property of the roads with said property (it was a pissy little 50cc motorcycle i was using to enable me to do my business).
using the monopoly of violence of the state to enforce a monopoly is a violation of a core principle of jurisprudence, which is that no man should be taken or imprisoned without a judgement found by a jury of his peers
the precedent of the judgement in the case of the Vulgate was not made on the basis of a jury of his peers, but the arbitrary and singular self-proclaimed authority of the king to be the final arbiter, and i consider this to be the moment of history in which society started on the path to hell that led to millions of dead people in the 20th century