> I would be curious how can this be applied to a human? Should we also cite all the courses, articles that we have read on a topic when we write code?

Yea this is the kind of BS and counter-productiveness that irrational radicals try to push the crowd towards.

The idea that one owns your observations of their work and can collect rent on it is absurd.

The Right to Read is a great story on showing just how greedy and stupid people would get if we allow them. Society and culture is large scale theft. Imagine having to pay to learn about the idea of fire, or to use the alphabet. Simply put humanity would have never progressed much farther than animals. And yet, as the complexity of our ideas increase, suddenly many humans start thinking that owning ideas, many forever, is just great and will not have any negative ramifications.