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Would you abolish copyrights too, or just patents? Trademarks? If I could only have one of the three I’d keep trademarks. But I think copyrights are pretty ha
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Would you abolish copyrights too, or just patents? Trademarks?
If I could only have one of the three I’d keep trademarks.
But I think copyrights are pretty harmless, given the fair use provision and a sensible cutoff. Like 50 years seems like plenty of times to diversify those assets.
I’m an anarchist generally, and I can definitely envision a world where all IP rights are abolished, but I think I’d want to go there slowly, one right at a time. Because the capitalist mechanism will by default harm people so we need syndicalist institutions in place before we open the floodgates to the abuse of the markets.