"There was a long time where I didn't realize I had money that I could spend." [Everyone laughs]

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Intellectual property is a sometimes useful fiction. It's not *really* property because it doesn't allow exclusive possession, but treating like property can have some useful effects. There should be a much smaller cap on time length and a cap on remuneration before it enters public domain. But ubiquity certainly…

No, there is no physical object here. Literal physicality really matters because physicality is the what forces exclusivity on ownership. For me to get what you have I must make it so that you don't have it. That is not so with intellectual property.

It's a truism so obvious it is embarrassing to have to state it.

But why do you see using a riff and a verse as the same as equivalent to "pass[ing] off the same blueprint under is name"? That's the whole issue. If an architect had seen the same archway in a million places hundreds of times over his life and so tried to recreate it from memory as a part of a building, that would…

All you did was restate your position in more words. If you would provide an argument I would actually consider it and respond to it with more than bold negation.

Also intellectual property is fiction. Occasionally useful fiction, but still, not real. What is real is the experience a person has and his need to process it. Just because the forces of capitalism have shaped our world in a certain way (certain houses in filling our views, certain songs filling our ears) does not…

Well, you can. Morally. So you are the one who is wrong here actually. Your statements are the bollocks ones.

Please explain how it would be more apt.

Don't confuse a physical object with a sensory experience. The house is not yours, but your view of it is and you ought to be free to use that sense memory in your art.

This is the insanity of capitalist totalism. Everything is monetized. Since about 20 years ago "Just What I Needed" was not an artistic work, it was part of the noise of growing up in America. Fucking Ric Ocasek got paid millions of dollars for that day's work many times over, and radio and advertising got paid tens…

I like one part of the cars - it's the seat headrest part!

He's a piece of shit because he got super rich from a couple minutes of his work being turned into a pervasive part of our environment for 30 years, but he wants to keep that part of Will Toledo's (and our) life to be off limits for artistic exploration.

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More like *Cars* Seat Headrest!

Oh right, I think that is correct. Anyway, the good singer of a rockin' punk band is not as kick ass as a space warrior/first female video game hero IMO.

It's sort of anti-feminist. How can we make the one great female hero of classic video games, a space soldier with a weaponized suit of armor, more kick ass? Replace her with someone who grew up and became a rock star as a man and just recently came out as a woman!

Laura Jane Grace is more kick ass than Samus? Uhno.

It sounds like what a middle aged person in the 50s would have said at the time.