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Thank you, I have tried to come up with industries without practically any IP protection. Now I have two. Comedy and Financial engineering. Funnily enough, I do
by beefield 11y ago
Thank you, I have tried to come up with industries without practically any IP protection. Now I have two. Comedy and Financial engineering. Funnily enough, I do not feel deprived of comedy, and what comes to financial innovations, I would argue that their supply is actually more than sufficient. (Maybe, just maybe, we should allow patents for financial instruments just for the sake of limiting the speed of development of those)
- 7Z7 11y agoClothing also. You cannot copyright an item of clothing, or even a particular cut. Only specific trademarkable additions, such as labelling and, for instance, the specific stitch pattern Levis do on the back pocket of their jeans.
- LLWM 11y agoI don't feel deprived of comedy in general because anyone can redistribute some list of a few hundred jokes without repercussion. Good comedy, however, is hard to come by. I've heard it all before and now I need to look for niche domains like language intersection to find novel jokes.