The idea of no IP is nice but it suffers from the same flaws as socialism. If their is no incentive to create thought based works, thought based works will stagnate. That being said currant IP laws are just as bad. Copyright should be opt in. If the owner of a copyright/patent cannot be found then you should be free to use it. Non-profit uses of patents should be free...
No, the idea of IP suffers from the same flaws as socialism..... Write it 100 times "I will not use force to achieve social or political goals". Just cuz you think it'll make the world a better place isn't good enough. I think the world would be better if pickles were free and availabe on every corner.
No one invented or wrote or sang anything before intellectual property laws? That's not true so neither is your second sentence.
Your third sentence is the way it is now pretty much and also the way a world w/o copyright laws would be. I have some friends that wrote the John Hughes foundation and asked for permission for their drama troupe to perform The Breakfast Club. No response after one year so they did.... In a HS library.... It rocked. Then I got drunk with Bender. And I think I might have hit on his girlfriend.
Non-profits uses should be free? That's just fucking retarded. It's either property or it's not. I think people should have absolute ownership of frisbees........ unless little retarded kids want to play with them... retarded kids are cute.