> Intellectual property exists as a concept to foster the creation of more intellectual property.

The idea of IP as an economic tool to foster creation comes out of the UK and subsequently the US. In mainland Europe, IP comes out of the French Revolution and the idea that copyright is like a "moral right" that you intrinsically deserve for putting in the effort to create something. This viewpoint has de facto won out because as global commerce and global culture has become more and more widespread, everybody has standardized on the longest durations (the standard has long been "life + 50 years" in Europe) so one country doesn't have to worry about freeing up its works for "exploitation" by another country.

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joquarky 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> the idea that copyright is like a "moral right" that you intrinsically deserve for putting in the effort to create something

Nope. "[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The ends is promoting progress. The means for that is prescribed by a limited monopoly as an incentive to those ends.

At least in the US.

	▲	ndiddy 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Please read the entire sentence you're quoting, then ask yourself whether that sentence is referring to the US, or to somewhere else.