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This is what irrational looks like. "just wrong" Um. Ok. Why? `limiting exploration of fair use` Unless you're one of those empirical people and like human expe

by cardiac 10y ago

This is what irrational looks like. "just wrong" Um. Ok. Why? `limiting exploration of fair use` Unless you're one of those empirical people and like human experimentation, which is rather unethical when people's livelihoods are at stake, you can literally theorize that right now. Go ahead. Everybody's listening. Well, while you continue to think about that and have no answer, we'll continue using laws that protect content creators. Many of these opinions are nonsensical anti-capitalist drivel. TPP is consistency and compromise and if there's a real better way, you better believe countries will adapt to it.

mattnewton 10y ago
Irrational and anti-capitalist these are not. There is nothing free-market about a patent or copyright, they are exceptions to the free market meant to try and subsidize "innovation," and smart people are still arguing on whether or not that is working well today. There are other issues that the TPP forces the hand of the American legislative system to pass new restrictions where we had previously voted against doing so. It is an undemocratic, anti-free-market end run around the American legislative branch.
- pzone 10y ago
  There are very good arguments in favor of the existence of patents and copyrights. Copyrights and and patent reward creators and innovators for their work. Of course giving these legal rights too much force (eg indefinite copyright, overly broad patent licenses) is harmful since it restricts further innovation and increases the price of consuming creative goods. But the question is not whether patents and copyright are pure good or pure evil, but how we should make use of these legal tools to improve society. http://economics.mit.edu/files/7720 http://economics.mit.edu/files/7720 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-015-9114-3 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-015-9114-3

by cardiac 10y ago

mattnewton 10y ago

Irrational and anti-capitalist these are not. There is nothing free-market about a patent or copyright, they are exceptions to the free market meant to try and subsidize "innovation," and smart people are still arguing on whether or not that is working well today. There are other issues that the TPP forces the hand of the American legislative system to pass new restrictions where we had previously voted against doing so. It is an undemocratic, anti-free-market end run around the American legislative branch.

pzone 10y ago
There are very good arguments in favor of the existence of patents and copyrights. Copyrights and and patent reward creators and innovators for their work. Of course giving these legal rights too much force (eg indefinite copyright, overly broad patent licenses) is harmful since it restricts further innovation and increases the price of consuming creative goods. But the question is not whether patents and copyright are pure good or pure evil, but how we should make use of these legal tools to improve society. http://economics.mit.edu/files/7720 http://economics.mit.edu/files/7720 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-015-9114-3 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-015-9114-3