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It's entirely economic. The US didn't care about IP when it was starting out.

• naringas 6y ago
  reminiscent of sillicon valley and free and open source software. when it was starting out it was great that it was free and open. now that their economies depend on it, the freedom and the openess are not so important.
• georgeecollins 6y ago
  Um source? The US Patent Law was enacted in 1790.
  • bildung 6y ago
    "The city of Lowell, Massachusetts actually got its start after its namesake, Francis Cabot Lowell, visited England in the early 19th century and spent his time trying to figure out how the Brits had managed to automate the process of weaving cloth. Charming his way into factories, he memorized what he saw, and managed to reproduce the weaving machine. Hamilton didn’t just send Americans to Britain in search of the secrets of the industrial revolution. He used patents to lure immigrants with skills and knowledge to move to the United States. George Parkinson, for example, was awarded a patent in 1791 for a textile spinning machine, which was really just a rip-off of a machine he had used in England. The United States also paid his family's expenses to emigrate and re-locate to the US." https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/07/30/ip_theft_is_what_once_helped_make_america_great_103367.html https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/07/30/ip_thef... Edit: The history of hollywood is also fitting: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-history-hollywood-and-copyright-law https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-histor...
    • georgeecollins 6y ago
      Thank you. Good point!