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Copyright laws are by no means perfect, but they solve a very significant flaw of the free market: without the "overly restrictive copyright laws" you would hav
by dmitriid 6y ago
Copyright laws are by no means perfect, but they solve a very significant flaw of the free market: without the "overly restrictive copyright laws" you would have literally thousands of technologies under lock and key and unavailable to anyone except the inventor of those technologies.
Apple's commanding lead in processor design is entirely unavailable to anyone except Apple. How do you propose the free market to solve that? Oh wait, it didn't and it hasn't: there are no regulations governing processor designs. You're free to go ahead and implement anything you want.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Oh wait, it didn't and it hasn't: there are no regulations governing processor designs. We have no patent laws? Or are you saying that the “technologies” are obvious and non-novel?
- dmitriid 6y agoThe patent laws solve the actual problem of a free market: they give access to a technology to everyone (after a period of time). Something a free market would never agree to because that destroys the advantage of a company. --- start quote --- A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. --- end quote ---