[indrax]

>only when "ownership" is artificially enforced by some sufficiently mighty entity with the power to do so is there anything to trade in the first place.

Every instance of funding open software and free content disproves this.

The valuable thing is the creation of IP. If you want IP pay for its creation. The market can do that.

[nosianu]

Clarification: When I said "trade" I meant trading the IP, exactly that. Not creation of IP. Different thing.