>>25
I wasn't advocating the abolishment of intellectual property. I was specifically rebutting
>>21's hypothetical, which
>>21 then recanted due to the indefensible nature of the bad analogy.
However, for the moment let's assume I do advocate the abolishment of IP as you imply. There are several examples of IP production without IP ownership that flourish and for which people earn a respectable living.
Engineers (civil at least) are an example of "creativity as a a service" using entirely public domain tools. In engineering there are innumerable IP's that are public domain without which the trade couldn't exist; For example all the basic building blocks for a structure, arches columns girders, cement, bricks are IP that is free for anyone to use and without them structural engineering couldn't exist. At one time these didn't exist (examples in isolated precolonial South America) and as such our current civil engineers are standing on the backs of giants. If every building block of structural IP were locked behind a patent nothing could be built. Furthermore the product produced by a civil engineer belongs to the recipient who is free to distribute, make copies, modify and (so far as I know) resell to anyone they wish.
This is furthermore in the public's best interest, or would you rather civil engineers copywrite their ramps, buildings and retaining walls so that anyone who ever wants to build something similar will forever after(oops for 120 years after, my bad) need to beg permission and pay a royalty? Sorry guys our city can't build any off-ramps because the firm that built the first off-ramp back in the 30's doesn't like our cities gun laws. But it's their right I mean after all they invented the thing, right?
Right?
I was going to go on with other examples of compensation for public domain IP but you get the idea, open source software, fan-fic, unofficial anime translations, viral videos and so forth.