There's different kinds of intellectual property.
Copyright might rest on 'creativity is hard'. But patents and trademarks do not.
There's different kinds of intellectual property.
Copyright might rest on 'creativity is hard'. But patents and trademarks do not.
Trademarks don't, patents do. Different kind of creativity but still.
Patents do to a small extent, maybe. But eg medical patents are a lot about protecting all the 'sweat' you put in, not so much the creativity.