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Can't be that great at creating if they're still depending on decades old designs.
by morsch 10y ago
Can't be that great at creating if they're still depending on decades old designs.
- visarga 10y agoWell, now they will have to be more creative, and the law works both ways, their designs will also be protected. So everyone will have slightly or more different designs, just for the sake of being different.
- toyg 10y agoNobody said otherwise, but they do provide employment and profit for the highly-skilled. This development fits the "market of ideas" vision that developed countries have pushed ever since they lost manufacturing superiority to Asian countries. It's an overall attempt at maintaining some sort of upper hand in the commercial sector. Expect copyright and patent laws to be tweaked to cover more and more sectors - already they have been successfully leveraged in the food industry, for example, with "protected origin" programs. The unfortunate side-effect is that we're edging closer and closer towards thoughtcrime: if the objects of crime are ideas, the agents to police must be minds.