This is the DRM problem again.
However much we might wish that it was not true, ideas are not rivalrous. If you share an idea with another person, they now have that idea too.
If you share words on paper, then someone with eyes and a brain might memorize them (or much more likely, just grasp and retain the ideas conveyed in the words).
If you let someone hear your music, then the ideas (phrasing, style, melody, etc) in that music are transferred.
If you let people see a visual work, then the stylistic and content elements of that work are potentially absorbed by the audience.
We have copyright to protect specific embodiments, but mostly if you try to share ideas with others without letting them use the ideas you shared, then you are in for a life of frustration and escalating arms race.
I completely sympathize with anyone who had a great idea and spent a lot of effort to realize it. If I invented/created something awesome I would be hurt and angry if someone “copied” it. But the hard cold reality is that you cannot “own” an idea.
However much we might wish that it was not true, ideas are not rivalrous. If you share an idea with another person, they now have that idea too.
If you share words on paper, then someone with eyes and a brain might memorize them (or much more likely, just grasp and retain the ideas conveyed in the words).
If you let someone hear your music, then the ideas (phrasing, style, melody, etc) in that music are transferred.
If you let people see a visual work, then the stylistic and content elements of that work are potentially absorbed by the audience.
We have copyright to protect specific embodiments, but mostly if you try to share ideas with others without letting them use the ideas you shared, then you are in for a life of frustration and escalating arms race.
I completely sympathize with anyone who had a great idea and spent a lot of effort to realize it. If I invented/created something awesome I would be hurt and angry if someone “copied” it. But the hard cold reality is that you cannot “own” an idea.