{"id":3476,"date":"2021-05-29T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T18:12:50","slug":"dont-i-have-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/dont-i-have-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t I Have The Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Background is this song<\/a> because it was something often spinning in my CD player as a young guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I understood the sentiment, even with my rather-limited relationship status at the time, I disagreed with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was looking for the written-version of this<\/a>, but the audio version is fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one owes you anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m carrying on listening to the podcaster’s analysis of the article. I don’t have any kids (and I can say that was near-absolute certainty), but I do understand where he’s coming from. But my interactions are almost entirely with adults. No, I’d say that all<\/em> of my interactions are with adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World<\/a><\/em> has been at the back of mind for me for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things that’s been bouncing about my scarred brain lately has been one of the things that Browne wrote about with the rights trap<\/a>. In one of the PF <\/a>discussion sessions last week, there was impassioned discussion of using the state to protect intellectual property. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another article talking about<\/a> the rights trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of my thinking about it is flavored by some of the sentiments in the Free Software movement. I can’t recall, and can’t find, the phrase that used to pervade, “I don’t believe in imaginary property.” Flavored by things like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get bound up thinking about when is it okay to use the force of the state to compel others to respect your rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m in the camp, that for the most part, it’s never permissible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things that was drilled into my head in school is that there are three separate elements of “intellectual property” — patents, copywrites, trademarks, and trade secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patents provide you, a creator, exclusive opportunity to manufacture, license, or sell a particular invention for a fixed amount of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copywrites have similar limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trademarks are essentially perpetual, but you have to spend energy to protect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade secrets you have to keep secret forever<\/em>. Think about Colonel Sanders’s herbs and spices, or the recipe for Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. When is it appropriate to force others to respect your rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, the answer on that is never<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do what you do, and you’ll be rewarded for it. No one owes you anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You do owe others to avoid aggressing<\/a> against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background is this song because it was something often spinning in my CD player as a young guy. While I understood the sentiment, even with my rather-limited relationship status at the time, I disagreed with it. I was looking for the written-version of this, but the audio version is fascinating. No one owes you anything. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}