Topic: We should abolish intellectual property rights

Argument: intellectual property rights protects the ideas that will lead to a solid invention/investment and therefore need to be protected, not abolished.

Argument: intellectual property rights provide an important incententive for innovation and development of new products which if lost would harm the economy

Argument: intellectual property rights reduce the ability of people to engage with and reinterpret characters and stories and so make all of us poorer.

Argument: intellectual property rights should be abolished as it limits competitions and innovation.

Argument: intellectual property rights should be abolished as there is no real evidence that someone thought of something first and they should not profit in perpetuity from someone else using their claimed knowledge.

Argument: intellectual property rights should be abolished because maintaining it can be very expensive

Argument: intellectual property rights should be abolished since it doesn't allow the sharing of ideas

Argument: intellectual property rights should be protected to prevent ideas and inventive thinking from being stolen, used and/or manipulated by others, claim the intellectual property as their own.

Argument: intellectual property rights should be protected, as intellectual property is the same as physical property.

Argument: intellectual property rights should not be abolished as they provide security and protection to inventors to stop their hard work and financial investment being stolen and losing their just rewards

Argument: Intellectual property rights should not be abolished because it infringes on copyright and patent laws if not protected. ,

Argument: intellectual property rights should not be abolished because the work of an individual or company is their work to own

Argument: intellectual property rights should not be legally enforced, because anyone who creates intellectual property has the obligation to share that creation with the world in order to help educate or edify others.

Argument: intellectual property rights shouldn't be abolished because you won't have to worry about someone stealing your product and trying to pass it off as their own

Argument: Intellectual property rights slows down the speed with which people have access to technology, goods and ideas that could transfrom their lives so should be abolished.

Argument: intellectual property rights stifle growth and information by stopping the free-flowing of ideas.

Argument: intellectual property rights stifle the widespread use of life enhancing technology so we should abolish them.

Argument: intellectual property rights supports the idea of exclusivity to a concept or idea. limiting what others can do with a similar idea is not fair and should not be supported.

Argument: intellectual property rights takes away competitive pricing and should be abolished for that reason.

Argument: intellectual rights are important because they provide incentives for those who do artistic or research work

Argument: ip rights cause stagnation in the market