People would still have ownership rights, and there would still be laws in place to make sure you cannot simply copy stuff for free. The point is that people would be able to take your creation, improve it, and resell it. It encourages competition, which is needed for capitalism as well. The GNU public license already works in this way, with people able to take a creation and improve on it, then distribute that creation, as long as it is also distributed under GNU. The same principle is at the heart of the Open Source software movement, and that has been growing for years. The GNU/Linux operating system has spawned numerous distributions due to the license, each doing different things for different people.
I think people seem to misunderstand the difference between copyright and "stealing". For example, if a person released a music cd with a price of £10 and somebody stole that music (online or from a store), they are breaking the law defined as "stealing". In a copyright-free country, that would still be illegal. The difference is that if someone buys the cd, they can do whatever they want to the content (edit it, delete it, add to it) and then sell that music on as their own work. They are building on top of creations, and because the market is completely open, everyone is going to be improving each other's work.
As the creator of GNU Richard Stallman said "It's free as in freedom, not free as in beer".
I think people seem to misunderstand the difference between copyright and "stealing". For example, if a person released a music cd with a price of £10 and somebody stole that music (online or from a store), they are breaking the law defined as "stealing". In a copyright-free country, that would still be illegal. The difference is that if someone buys the cd, they can do whatever they want to the content (edit it, delete it, add to it) and then sell that music on as their own work. They are building on top of creations, and because the market is completely open, everyone is going to be improving each other's work.
As the creator of GNU Richard Stallman said "It's free as in freedom, not free as in beer".
