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Let me just turn the table around. Why should intellectual property copyright not last in perpetuity? A core proposition in Western world is that intellectual p
by sytelus 9y ago
Let me just turn the table around. Why should intellectual property copyright not last in perpetuity? A core proposition in Western world is that intellectual property is indistinguishable from other properties such as house you own or piece of art you create or your stamp collection or your startups. When you die, you have right to transfer these properties to your designated heir. Your properties does not become a public properties when you die even when it would have been good for the society. Why intellectual property should have vastly different treatment?
BTW, I am absolutely not advocating that current definition of intellectual properties is correct or even fair. I am just saying that assuming if this definition was ideal, wouldn't above make sense?
- Jedd 9y ago> A core proposition in Western world is that intellectual property is indistinguishable from other properties such as house you own or piece of art you create or your stamp collection or your startups. It really is not. What makes you believe that it is? > When you die, you have right to transfer these properties to your designated heir. A great many people who don't get to inherit their wealth have been questioning this mantra for centuries, probably longer (albeit more cautiously).
- eukgoekoko 9y agoI bet the Chinese as the inventors of paper would be happy to get some royalties from the Western world.
- swsieber 9y agoMedia companies have cast IP as such, but it really didn't start that way. IP started as a way to encourage creation, and it acknowledged as artificial.