Don’t you mean as a law? Ideas should be free.

No as a concept. Assigning ownership to specific bit patterns is absurd.

So, anyone should be able to sell something called "Coca Cola"?

Nitpick: that’s trademark, not copyright. While it’s bundled under IP, it’s a different beast altogether.

	▲	kube-system 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The above claim was in fact regarding “intellectual property”. If you break it down, there are plenty of IP rights which make a lot of sense. Here’s one for copyright: “Do you think any corporation should be allowed to make closed source forks of GPL software?”

layer8 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Intellectual property isn’t about bit patterns.