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It is appalling that cancer research in particular is being hamstrung with such extreme mercenary motives as protecting IP
by ptah 7y ago
It is appalling that cancer research in particular is being hamstrung with such extreme mercenary motives as protecting IP
- conanbatt 7y agoProtective IP on medical research probably means more investment is done in medical research. The recognition of private property in intellectual endeavors necesarily means that more capital is invested in intellectual endeavors. Personally I think that creating an artificial wall to make more people devote time to entertainment, or certain research, etc is pretty dumb and would be better not to exist at all.
- ptah 7y agothe problem with capital is that is only motivated by potential profit
- conanbatt 7y agoCapital has no intentions. People have intentions and they intend to use their owm savings the best way they can.
- frockington1 7y agoNothing is stopping you from giving all of your capital away to cure cancer
- ptah 7y agobut then it would not be capital anymore
- ggggtez 7y agoIP law has many problems, but one of the GOOD things it does it limit the risk of engaging in expensive research projects. If you find something, you get a monopoly on that discovery for X years. If some country or company ignores your monopoly, then why should you make the discovery public? Why should you spend hard time and money researching something that you'll never see the profit from at all? That hurts everyone. IP law encourages research. And specifically, it encourages you making that research public in order to get a government monopoly on it. Now, we could argue about nuances on how long such a monopoly should last, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find people willing to throw good money after bad in order to get someone else rich. Researchers would keep as much as possible as corporate secrets, and medical research would slow down significantly.