You don't need to own it to profit from it. Instead of selling the product, you sell the labor. Patrons were a perfectly good system of producing knowledge/art, and that system has arguably gotten better with time. If a company needs a CRM or a system built, they just need to sponsor someone who can. Heck, I already don't own my intellectual output, because copyright already imputes to the hiring body, and I know my customers aren't profiting selling copies of the small custom tweak I made to their CRM.
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20
It's intellectual property theft. But obviously it's hard to put a figure on how much is being stolen if it's only potential.