Andrew "bunnie" Huang explains an alternative model of innovation in his talk An Alternative to the American way of Innovation[1]. The over-simplified summary

Andrew "bunnie" Huang explains an alternative model of innovation in his talk An Alternative to the American way of Innovation[1]. The over-simplified summary is that instead of worrying about the losing the monopoly protection of copyrights and patents - which are expensive to enforce and often bypassed - consider the new types of innovation that become possible when you have access to the all of the knowledge that was previously locked behind IP monopolies. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39fhrGjr4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39fhrGjr4U