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I am not a lawyer, but I wonder if laws against hoarding physical goods like hand sanitizer during an emergency also apply to so called intellectual property.
by fnord123 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I wonder if laws against hoarding physical goods like hand sanitizer during an emergency also apply to so called intellectual property.
- pmiller2 7y agoDoes it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should, IMO. That includes making any vaccines or treatments widely available at or near cost, possibly with government subsidies. Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line. Edit: I don’t know exactly where the line of IP as a public good lies, but with this many lives at stake, we’re certainly well into that kind of territory.
- pooper 7y ago> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO. That includes making any vaccines or treatments widely available at or near cost, possibly with government subsidies. Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line. >> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO. Did you include a not when you meant to not include it?
- pmiller2 7y agoOoh, yes. Thank you.
- Hokusai 7y ago> Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line. Is it Ok when it’s just tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds? At which number it becomes acceptable to abuse patents to sell overpriced medicines for the sick? The system needs improvements. The pandemic is temporal. The injustice have been there for many years.
- pmiller2 7y agoI’m purposely not drawing an exact line. Nonetheless, when potentially hundreds of millions of lives are at stake globally, it’s safe to say we’ve crossed over into IP as a public good land.