All the rhetoric which has been beaten like dead horses aside, there is a new angle seemingly lacking intelligent discussion.
It was claimed IIRC by Stewart Brand that "Information wants to be free"
Then you know who introduced the Beer Vs Freedom meme.
Yet what the hell is meant by those in our mundane world?
Want in one hand and wish in the other if you want two empty hands was what I'd been told all my life. AkA "TANSTAAFL"
So who pays the bills if all is free? Ah, there's the problem. Sadly one not answerable by 42.
Allegedly the term "Copyleft" at one time literally was found on buttons at cons proclaiming "all rights reversed"
Then again,in the DRM ethos all rights are denied absent the de minimus and even those are dubious.
See the real purpose of HDMI for example. Or read most EULA of closed source origin. All this IS heading to a point.
The succession of GPL versions have made varying approaches to rational handling of the disparate interests involved.
I humbly offer a radically simpler reboot of the gaming..
Can we function under a guideline of honor as a bond? That means a declaration of mutual self respect for declared IP rights including their inalienable repudiation from another' profit?
Yes, the applied fiction of repudiation is arguably incorrect legal semantics but it spotlights a gap I feel needs attention.
Currently all the Diverse IP statues seem lacking in an instrumentality where an IP creator can declare their work as property of all while denying commercial interests from privatising in a restrictive manner such works.
One proposal is for granting works their own incarnation.
There is legal precedent for chattels being of limited yet real court standing.
My closing example for now is a proposal for one symbol possible as denoting such .
A circle surrounding a F.
Simply put that denotes in a better future than we deserve an IP item could be used but not sold or profited from in a manner that would diminish it's freedom to others.
DO please try to pick apart this concept but be mindful that history is trending to a fork. Either the F in the circle or another emblem in a circle of more grim history.