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If I pirate your software, or use your patents,trademarks, copyrights then the companies,startups will appeal to government to put me in place instead of appeal
by ttoinou 8y ago
If I pirate your software, or use your patents,trademarks, copyrights then the companies,startups will appeal to government to put me in place instead of appealing to free market.
Depends on the jurisdiction of your his company and yours. It might well happen that Asian companies are stealing our technologies and we let them do that, and let our fellow citizens buy their cheap products. It's all about voluntarily exchange, and as long as governments impose monopolies on usage of force and on judicial systems you are bound to rely on the governments to protect your so-called intellectual property rights.
I doubt there were IP rights back in the days for hammer, wheels, farming tools etc..
- simion314 8y agoMy point was addressed in special for business type people, startups people, they complain that regulation affects their ability to innovate so government is bad but on the other hand the government should do even more to protect them from pirates or China or emigrants. Same person wants 2 contradictory things but there is always a rationalization. The free market has it's benefits but you always need some regulation so it stays free and balanced, otherwise you can get in a not that free market situation (and you can't always blame the government because of missing competition) So have a free market, but keep the eye out, if an monopoly appears break it, if FB tries to buy a small competitor, don't allow it, if company X is playing by the laws but it does damage to the society you change the law so the damage stops.
- hinkley 8y agoYou had guilds with massive amounts of trade secrets. Patent law was created as an enticement to keep knowledge from being lost to posterity.