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We have rights to our work, that is clear. the nature of our existence requires it. you must be able to keep others from taking the results of your efforts.
by stretchwithme 16y ago
We have rights to our work, that is clear. the nature of our existence requires it.
you must be able to keep others from taking the results of your efforts. If, for example, you could not improve a piece of property and keep the benefits for yourself, our modern society or even a primitive agricultural one would not be possible.
Our work takes many forms and so does the nature of rights associated with it. But one thing is clear. If people will not do a kind of work we value without having their rights to the results protected, than it is necessary to do so.
But we should not hand out rights if "we" aren't getting something of real value in return.
One problem is that "we" the people have far too little say about how our interests are defined and promoted by the lobbyists who have the most influence over what government does. The collective right to make such deals with innovators has been captured by private interests.
- stretchwithme 16y agoAlso worth pointing out is the fact that length of time one retains a right to intellectual property influences how many works are created. Handing out rights for 70 years for literary work probably doesn't get us any more benefit than limiting them to 25 years. Writers don't really decide whether to create based on such long term considerations, so why should we give it away for nothing in return? On the other hand, if we make the period too short, a lot fewer works would be created.
- wake_up_sticky 16y ago90% of the works created are crap anyway.
- henrikschroder 16y agoIf people will not do a kind of work we value without having their rights to the results protected, than it is necessary to do so. Perhaps. Would people stop making music, stop writing, stop inventing if we removed IP protections?
- stretchwithme 16y agosome would and some wouldn't. I think those producing things of lasting value probably would continue. Their lives would be much more difficult though. And that doesn't seem very fair.