[OT] - does IP exist?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:19:18 +0000, Manfred_Nowak wrote:

> Yigal Chripun wrote:
> 
>> you cannot copyright a chair.
> 
> This might be true in the wording, but if it is true in a higher sense:
> 
>   Are you yourself copyrightable?
> 
> If you are not copyrightable and are moving in public, then: is everyone
> allowed to make a copy of your body without your consent?
> 
> Do you think, that you, the original, are worth more than any copy of
> yours?
> 
> Otherwise: is it okay for you, that your copy is able to empty your
> bank-account, because for the bank your copy is indistinguishable from
> yourself?
> 
> Please note again, that this is an appeal to a higher sense, i.e. at
> least assume that the technical issues for copying humans are solvable
> within a short period of your lifetime.
> 
> -manfred

Manfred, I am sorry but I already know how this can be argued against. If 
he himself makes a copy of himself and gives it to someone, then yes that 
person is able to make and sell copies of Yigal. The problem here is 
deciding what rights a creator has and what rights the owner of a copy 
has.