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Intellectual Property Has Killed Play

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Sam Gray
Jul 07, 2025
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The impulse to safeguard the work of our hands is a natural one. But when that impulse is lifted out of the realm of personal responsibility and codified into systems of exclusion, it ceases to be stewardship and becomes something else entirely. Ideas are not acres to be fenced. They do not wear out with use. Yet we have built a regime that treats them …

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I was once Zerathuun, Krythonic Commander and Second-in-Command to Lord Therenox. Now, I am Skyrend. And Earth is my domain.
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