Scenario 2 : Everything on the web are freely available - No existing Intellectual Property

Rationale

The rationale behind intellectual property protection (IPP) and copyright systems was to stimulate scientific research and creative works like writing, painting; Intellectual property protection is considered help people to protect what they have founded (ideas, science, music, books). But in this way further scientific research based on available results is inhibited and slowed down.
Intellectual property is considered to help the owners of the idea’s and creative works, but does it really helps them to protect their property?
• A lot of times “patents are used to suppress innovation” [1]; companies buy patents from the original inventors to protect their current business. Although the original inventor gets paid something in such cases, patents are used in a wrong way here. Instead of promoting further development of their ideas, their ideas got stocked here.
• Independent developers of ideas are mostly ignored and if someone at a company had a great idea, the patent on the idea is owned by the company and not by the employee, the company earns most of the profits. If we look at IPP in this way, is it than really stimulating innovation?
• Publishers of essays, books, scientific research think that IPP helps them against plagiarism, but is that really the case? If their work is copyright protected, IP helps them against people that copy+paste exactly the same words; but what if someone writes an essay about their results with different words?

Third World people and poor people are suffering under this patent system because, among other things, they cannot use the plants that they have been using for free for centuries anymore, because now they are panted by some biotechnology firm. If we look at IP from this angle, it than is just another way to benefit the few rich people by use of the many poor people.

2006 - Drivingforces or opponents of IP?

Peoples need for information sharing and communication, the increasing need for teamwork across geographical boundaries, the globalization, the pattern of entertainment, booming of the internet industry and even increasing piracy will demand for a world with no intellectual property.
All those are already happening, they are a fact; it is a fact that people need to share information, it is a fact that they need to communicate etc. And as the technology is evolving, it is easy to illegally download software, music and so on. Something is needed to protect the original ideas or innovations to a certain extent, but the current legacy system (IPP, copyright, creative commons)is not good enough as we can see from piracy problems and from the rationale mentioned above.
Thus, because the people will need the internet more and more and because the current IPP is not good enough already (while it will become worse, because of the technology development); there is a need for some other kind of businesses; businesses where IPP is not needed.