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> One moral justification is that the ability to own and profit from intellectual property gives people a powerful incentive to create and share new things. Pe
by astazangasta 10y ago
> One moral justification is that the ability to own and profit from intellectual property gives people a powerful incentive to create and share new things.
People who own intellectual property are rarely the people who created it. Those people usually get nothing for their efforts beyond a wage.
- collyw 10y agoAgreed. When I worked for a big name mobile phone manufacturer, they offered us £200 or £300 pounds for ideas that got patented. I never gave them my ideas as it seemed so stingy (and getting my own patents would have been time consuming and costly).