I’m confused where copyright comes into this.

We could certainly have a society that doesn’t allow private ownership of ideas but still protects accurate attribution and faithful replication of ideas.

It’s kinda funny. For a while, it looked like the digital age had solved those problems for good.

At the time of the Statute of Anne, Western (Anglo) society was suffering from epistemic chaos caused by bootleg printers producing sloppy incomplete reproductions and obscuring the original author’s message and identity.

But computers are good at making exact copies and preserving sources.

Or at least they were…

Anyway, we should be able to legislate prosocial norms without having to sneak them in through financial instruments. To think otherwise is to uncritically accept the neoliberal frame.