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Yes, USA has been a paragon of virtue in intellectual property matters.
by KorematsuFred 8y ago
Yes, USA has been a paragon of virtue in intellectual property matters.
- remarkEon 8y agoWhile true that the US is no saint in this regard, the scale of IP theft by China is industrial, and well known.
- vkou 8y agoIf history is any indication, once countries start becoming net exporters of IP, and net importers of low-skilled labour, they very quickly adopt the same neo-liberal trade and IP policies that are currently championed by the developed world.
- ben_jones 8y agoYes imagine if Thomas Edison had had his inventions stolen! American ingenuity stands on our patent system.
- vkou 8y agoImagine if Thomas Edison built his inventions off the ideas, and prototypes of others... Without crediting, or compensating them. Which he did. [1] [1] He even engaged in outright theft - copying, and selling bootleg movies, for Pete's sake's! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
- fredkorematsu 8y agoEdison himself was stealing ideas from others. Not to mention the slave labour and free natural resources of a new continent that americans used while enforcing chinese exclusion act. Ip theft from china is western imagination.
- screye 8y agoBad example buddy.
- KorematsuFred 8y agoEdison was the biggest thief of IP during his time. Of course when western societies steal it is not theft but "manifest destinty" "braveness" and a lot of other BS. But Chinese company's rise is purely because of theft. Is it ?