So no, you don't have a right to profit from the work of others without a signed contract that gives you the right (either by paying or for free as in an open license).
Legally, yes, IP laws exists under current law and thus it requires a contract to override.
But the point regarding labor is that in general, someone can't just do labor and then expect that they get something in return with no implicit or explicit contract.
And it seems like that's exactly what your argument is. You do labor - and then you get to regulate everyone else's behavior regardless of whether they agreed. Or more explicitly, you get the government to regulate everyone else's behavior.
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The point is that it isn't a natural right. It's a government grant to encourage certain behavior.
To take a hypothetical -- suppose in a post-apocalyptic world, there's two islands A and B within sight of each other. They each have their own people, and they make farms and buildings and so forth. If A's go over to B island and take their crops, then that's clearly a provocation. They've violated the others' territory - and the B's are right in retaliating.
But what if A's just observe how B's are farming, and use that to improve something in their own farming? Is that theft, and the B's can retaliate and attack the A's in response?
I would say no.
Creative quoting, where the fuck have I said anything that can be construed in any sane person's mind as "But the point regarding labor is that in general, someone can't just do labor and then expect that they get something in return with no implicit or explicit contract.
And it seems like that's exactly what your argument is. You do labor - and then you get to regulate everyone else's behavior regardless of whether they agreed. Or more explicitly, you get the government to regulate everyone else's behavior."
Please do provide the exact quote where I say that if I do labor then the government has to regulate everybody else's behaviour?
Unless you're talking about taking my shit and selling it without my consent, then yes, government ALREADY does that, all over the world (except in socialist/communist countries where the elite gets to take everybody else's shit).
Is that your position? YOU should be able to take my game and sell it without a contract with me?
Because I sure as fuck don't hold that strawman you, Pat, Oddbrain and Estar keep trying to build.
You either provide the exact quote or you're, once again, lying about me. Something not very Christian of you. But then again you're a progressive Christian.
Strange how all of you say I said that and yet none of you can ever prove I did...