Topic: We should abolish intellectual property rights

Argument: ip rights enable large corporations to have a stranglehold over creators designs and work and should be abolished

Argument: ip rights safeguard medical advancement so other countries won't profit off of their discoveries

Argument: ip should remain and/or be reformed, as they offer essential legal and commercial protections for the inventors or rights holders.

Argument: it is essential that people who put effort into inventions should reap the rewards without their ideas being stolen

Argument: it is just too hard to enforce & not worth the time & money

Argument: it is only fair that a person or company that created something should have protections against those that want to make money off of another's hard work.

Argument: it is too difficult to police intellectual property rights so should be abolished to focus resources elsewhere.

Argument: it is unfair if two people come up with something at the same time, that if one gets to the patent office first the other can't use their idea

Argument: it keeps others from infringing on patented ideas

Argument: keeping ip laws is better for creation and innovation. if ideas and products are not protected, people have less incentive to continue creating if someone else can replicate their idea immediately.

Argument: lawsuits brought on by intellectual rights cases are wasting court time

Argument: maintaining intellectual property rights can be expensive

Argument: maintaining intellectual property rights for all is too expensive, and maintaining these rights might restrict innovation in certain sectors.

Argument: many useful inventions never make it to the market due to the laws regarding intellectual property.

Argument: people do not need to worry whether a comparatively harmless sharing of music among friends might lead to lawsuits seeking thousands of dollars in damages.

Argument: people have the right to their ideas and therefore it shouldn't be banned.

Argument: people or companies owning the rights to certain ideas can create a closed market, where the owners of such ideas are able to set the price without the fear of competition.

Argument: people should be able to guarantee income from inventions to recover development cost

Argument: people should be protected from having their ideas and other intellectual property stolen from them by big businesses.

Argument: people should have a right of ownership to their creations, ideas, and concepts that they created themselves.

Argument: people should have the right to own their own ideas

Argument: people working hard to invite something and should be awarded for it.

Argument: people's creative work should be protected so someone is held responsible should anything happen

Argument: people/companies will have worked hard, possibly for many years to develop research and product and spend a lot of money on these, they need to be able to recoup this money by keeping the products exclusive.

Argument: property is property, whether intellectual or physical and belongs to whoever created it. their rights should be protected.