Topic: We should abolish intellectual property rights

Argument: intellectual property rights benefit the big corporations more than individuals as they can spend millions creating and patenting ideas which just makes them more powerful

Argument: intellectual property rights can be granted to those who don't deserve protection

Argument: intellectual property rights don't work. we see this with piracy websites as well as state actors such as china. there is no point in holding onto a broken system.

Argument: intellectual property rights enable people to benefit from what they worked so hard to achieve.

Argument: intellectual property rights ensure that people or companies can make profits from what they have spent much time and effort in creating.

Argument: intellectual property rights ensures ideas from originators are not stolen and used for profit.

Argument: intellectual property rights get in the way of sharing information.

Argument: intellectual property rights give large corporations license to price gouge through their monopoly on unique ideas and this causes a great burden on consumers and society at large.

Argument: Intellectual property rights help secure people's rights to their income.

Argument: intellectual property rights hurt the flow of information.

Argument: intellectual property rights incentivize inventors to keep inventing

Argument: Intellectual property rights keep people from making needed improvements to ideas first thought of by someone else.

Argument: Intellectual property rights keep people from stealing others' ideas and selling them as their own.

Argument: intellectual property rights leads to monopolies, which drives up the prices for consumers.

Argument: intellectual property rights limit creativity and put too much power in the hands of corporations which have the resources to crush the liberty of people who innocently re-post content.

Argument: intellectual property rights mean that access to the arts can be more expensive meaning that poorer people have less access than richer people.

Argument: intellectual property rights mean that it is too expensive to access literature and music. abolishing these rights would make art more accessible to all.

Argument: intellectual property rights need to be used to protect people's work.

Argument: intellectual property rights prevent advances in technological innovation, by restricting access to information.

Argument: intellectual property rights prevent the free flow of information and innovation, and should be abolished.

Argument: intellectual property rights prevent the stealing of others accomplishments and ideas

Argument: intellectual property rights protect someone's research and hard work ensuring that they can be recognized and recompensed for their efforts.

Argument: intellectual property rights protect the small guy from being gobbled up by large companies who have more money to create a product.

Argument: intellectual property rights protect those who have spent time and ingenuity on development of an idea and ensures they can be rewarded accordingly for their inspiration.