[regen7253]

"Owning ideas" is a relatively new concept -- intellectual property is a few centuries old.

"Ownership" is completely opposite to a natural state of things, and can only be enforced with force. Mix that abstract concept with the abstract of information for extra complexity. Add to it that Information can't be "owned" in the same sense that physical property can, and the fact that (if not copyrighed), it's a non-excludable, non-rivalrous good (it can benefit everyone, equally, at the same time).

On the other hand, it's nice to incentivize innovation, competition and creativity, or at least, not hinder it.

It would be very interesting to go to 2124 and check if these concepts are still alive, or if somehow we have evolved our social norms to be closer to the natural world. Once you convey information to any entity outside of your brain/body, it naturally belongs to the world.

[pseudosavant]

And copyright definitely isn’t ownership. You don’t own the work. You have a limited exclusive right to how the work is used, distributed, or monetized.

A right is not ownership.