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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5418773" data-attributes="member: 18280">Well, here we disagree to some extent.The existence of IP is to promote a reasonable gain for money spent in innovation, because innovation benefits society.  The term is intended to grant the IP creator long enough to make a reasonable profit from his/her/their work.  This profit is the incentive to invest in doing the work in the first place.It is true, however, that both term and scope of control over IP has increased in ways that are certainly profitable to the IP holders, but not necessarily beneficial to (and perhaps harmful to) society.Ethical =/= Legal.It is always hoped that what is legal will be informed by what is ethical, but attempts to make the two terms synonymous would damage society enormously.  This is especially true because there is no objective way to determine what is, or is not, ethical (despite what seem to be claims to the contrary in this thread).  Attempting to force others to conform to what you view as ethical is......well, not always ethical.  IMHO, anyway.  There is a fuzzy line that has to be drawn somewhere.Attempting to urge others to take what you view as ethical action, though, or not take an action you view as deeply unethical, is probably as close to an "objective" moral obligation as I can imagine.  Well, accept practicing the same before preaching it, anyway.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />RC</blockquote>

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