[OT] - does IP exist?

[Manfred_Nowak]

Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> if a person was
> copyrightable, he would have the legal power to force his kids not
> to have any kids of their own

Not at all, because
1) "copy" has the connotation of a non canonical mere technical 
procedure
2) one would have to define reproduction, especially sexual 
reproduction, to be copying
3) if 2) has been done, then the first child has the legal right to 
force his parents to have no more childs or---that its parents have had 
no right to copy it to what it is now, especially if the child is 
somehow disabled 
4) the clinch resulting out of 3) seems unsolvable and a try to 
establish the above force on one's own kids might be interpretable as 
an abuse

Therefore the main counter argument is provided by 1) and 2): sexual 
reproduction is not definable to be "copying"

-manfred

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