Copyright and patent laws are not natural rights, they're instruments to encourage progress. If they stop promoting progress, or worse hinder it, they lose their constitutional justification.
These IP laws are a violation of free speech currently allowed and justified under the dubious notion they promote progress in arts and sciences. When it is the free exchange of ideas that maximizes progress of arts and sciences.
That said with the arrival of artificial general intelligence and eventually superintelligence it will become even more evident that IP laws hinder progress in arts and sciences and lack constitutional justification, but are in fact unconstitutional. You cant restrict peoples inalienable natural innate inviolable natural right yk freedom of speech just to harm the public good by hindering progress.
In the mean time in coming years it is likely llms and or any more advanced ai will be able to analyze binaries, machine code or closed software even obfuscated and reverse engineer and replicate function of any and all privately sold software resulting in the easy creation of open source software of same function but different underlying reverse engineered code.
Whether such can be offered publicly or not doesnt matter much if local llms continue to get better. As anyone will be able to privately recreate any software they like. The ability of llms and future more advanced software will make any software ad a service company need to innovate and look for other sources of value to provide besides functionality.
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