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What arguments do they make about patents that do not apply well to copyright? Do they take any position on trade secret protections?
by kd0amg 16y ago
What arguments do they make about patents that do not apply well to copyright? Do they take any position on trade secret protections?
- wazoox 16y agoPatents has been used exclusively to stifle competition and have a very bad record of actually hampering progress. Even the canonical case of pharma is debunked thoroughly. For copyright, the case is quite clear too, though it may still be possible that a short copyright (14 years, for instance) may still be better than nothing at all. Trade secrecy are treated page 188. Basically, it is much more used than patents, so suppressing patents won't change things much. Revealing secrets through patents is very inefficient anyway.