> It is putting an ownership

over an artifact

You can copy the idea though

And I say copy because before the author made it in the form of an artifact, you didn't know it could be done, or you could have done it on your own.

I can draw ocean waves, nobody owns ocean waves

But if I cooy verbatim hokusai ocean waves, it's mehhhhhhhh

I'm a ripoff loser and should be punished for doing it

Edit: but I like your closing sentence.

Free for all to use it as they see fit is an interesting thought, however I think that imbalance of the means of production will always make the corporations the ultimate beneficiaries, so we should also rethink how our economic system works.

For example: if I could copy the avengers, people would say "it's a cheap copy of Disney's original" and I would hardly make any money out of it.

It's an interesting POV nonetheless.

> IP is nonsense. It is putting an ownership over an idea, but ideas aren't objects. You can not steal or destroy an idea, giving ownership rights to ideas is absurd.

IP isn't ownership over an idea, it's ownership over a specific artifact.

You cannot copyright the idea of painting or the ideas contained within a specific painting, but you can copyright this specific painting because this specific painting is an artifact.