@Dudebro @snacks @jeffcliff Imaginary property is a psyop to confuse people between copyright laws, patent laws, trademark laws, trade secret laws that is very successful.

The GNU article explains it quite well.

Corporations still cannot own general ideas on a creative topic (although there have been many general idea patents granted on basic mathematical ideas) - but they do gladly copy a work from the public domain, sanitize it and then ensure it never returns to the public domain.

One of the reason why people don't bother to produce works of a general idea is that it's very hard to get people to even realize a work exists even with the internet - as people just keep going for the corpo slop.