Genius is more common than you think (medium.com)

How should the facts of this article (at least a significant portion of inventions have multiple simultaneous creations) inform us with respect to "Intellectual Property"? If, as trends seem to be leading, "Intellectual Property" is less a short term monopoly to incentivize innovations, and more of perpetual ownership of an idea, shouldn't we be granting part-ownership for the other people that more-or-less simultaneously create something? That way we're not dis-incentivizing innovation, there's a chance for part ownership in the next lightbulb or telegraph or whatever big time monopoly turns up as "Intellectual Property".

Interesting read. A topic I've thought about frequently as well.

I'm surprised this didn't gain more momentum.. but the timing of exposition here seems to be often more important than content.