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The reason why we have IP laws is that we assume innovators are selfish and will only innovate for personal economic gains.
by Leary 8y ago
The reason why we have IP laws is that we assume innovators are selfish and will only innovate for personal economic gains.
- arcticfox 8y agoThis is a fairly good assumption IMO.
- PeterisP 8y agoYou don't need to assume that they'll only innovate for such gains. You can avoid absolutes and simply assume that many innovators are selfish, and personal economic gains are a strong motivation that works in many cases; which seems absolutely true and is a sufficient reason why IP laws would be useful.
- antpls 8y agoThere are obviously other reasons. IP laws were invented before information technology, and used the fact that information travel costs both in term of space and money were higher than today, and therefore controllable on an human scale. It is reasonable to question the whole IP system in the light of today's communications.