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confiscate intellectual property if they fund it "Confiscate" is a very loaded word to use here. You don't say that I "confiscated the farmer's tomatoes" when
by nitrogen 6y ago
confiscate intellectual property if they fund it
"Confiscate" is a very loaded word to use here. You don't say that I "confiscated the farmer's tomatoes" when I trade money for those tomatoes, or that an employer "confiscated the employee's code" when they traded that code for salary.
How much tax money would be derived from the multitude of businesses that would arise if more government-funded IP was freely licensed instead of granted to a single spinoff company?
- samatman 6y agoNot much, since taking government money would mean forking over everything you invent to the government, and not many research groups would want to do it. It would be a poison pill: everything your lab does would come under scrutiny and potential lawsuit, how do you demonstrate that one thing was paid for with public funds but another thing wasn't? In a response to describing researchers keeping IP they develop under grant as "straight up theft", I felt entitled to use a bit of inflammatory rhetoric of my own.