Questions for the Entertainment Industry

The EFF just gave me a capital idea regarding what to do about the wealthy trying to impose Orwellian laws on our information, and secure monopolies on the most lucrative market in history: the entertainment industry. Frequently Awkward Questions. The only problem is, the list the EFF provides is biased in the respect that the EFF make it a policy to follow the law, even when the law is clearly unjust. So I'm going to provide a list of questions to ask that doesn't respect the law. If a law is just, then I won't be able to come up with questions that challenge its worth, so ultimately my questions should be simpler, and more effective in the long run, than that of the EFF.

Do intellectual property rights encourage innovation?
Once you have a guaranteed patent to profit from, how does that encourage you to invest in innovation?
Are intellectual property rights functionally different from a state supported monopoly? How so?
Would you say there is a difference between sharing and stealing?
Would the difference be that it's stealing only if you don't profit from it?
What percentage would you say of the profits from a creative work go to people who did not create it?
How does profiting from a creative work help the creators at all then?
If I can publish a work for a lower cost than you can, does the artist have a right to sign an exclusive contract with you?
If I can give a worker a salary, and you can't, does the worker have a right to sign a contract of slavery with you?
Is intellectual property something that should be bought and sold at all?
Would people stop having ideas, once they can no longer sell their rights to those ideas to someone else?
If a majority of the people want to share files, is it democratic to deny them that right?
Is it even possible for every citizen of a democratic state be a criminal?

Questions for the Entertainment Industry

Journal started Jul 12, 2006