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> ok good call -- but I think number three there is most likely in practice here.. Then what's the other bill then? I think it's more likely something 1., 2.

> ok good call -- but I think number three there is most likely in practice here.. Then what's the other bill then? I think it's more likely something 1., 2. or 5. (which I just added after your comment), given the backers of the bill are in the minority and likely have little influence on anything, given the current levels of political polarization. > monetary license bills don't seem like a candidate for "sincerely held beliefs" to me Looking at the sponsors (Massie (R-KY), Gohmert (R-TX), Gosar (R-AZ), and McClintock (R-CA)), they seem like they're on the right wing of the Republican party. It's totally believable this might be some kind of reflection of "sincerely held beliefs" in property rights. Edit: Sayeth the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie#Other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie#Other > Massie describes himself as a constitutional conservative. He believes in intellectual property and thinks it is necessary for incentivizing innovation. Massie has remarked that this is one of the areas where he is not a libertarian.

mistrial9 5y ago
hmm .. well I can say that as a US citizen, I was really shocked and upset a very long time ago, to find that some non-English speaking countries were completely and utterly throwing out copyright law on English language works. I was raised in an environment where an individual author could make a living (and own a home). This seems to be less-and-less true over the decades in the West. Meanwhile, software patents were always, from the beginning, a tool of very large corporate interests to secure revenue from "soft" implementations. No individual author of software that I encountered, gained in a meaningful way from Software Patents. At the same time, certain companies you know now as the largest in the world, aggressively added engineers and rewards for filing software patents. Even with strongly conservative, even Libertarian views, I do not see how these representatives and their close constituents, adhere to anything but the advancement of corporate interests, especially in thriving bio-tech of today. The circumstantial evidence here does make the outsider judgement a bit murkier, definitely.

mistrial9 5y ago

hmm .. well I can say that as a US citizen, I was really shocked and upset a very long time ago, to find that some non-English speaking countries were completely and utterly throwing out copyright law on English language works. I was raised in an environment where an individual author could make a living (and own a home). This seems to be less-and-less true over the decades in the West. Meanwhile, software patents were always, from the beginning, a tool of very large corporate interests to secure revenue from "soft" implementations. No individual author of software that I encountered, gained in a meaningful way from Software Patents. At the same time, certain companies you know now as the largest in the world, aggressively added engineers and rewards for filing software patents. Even with strongly conservative, even Libertarian views, I do not see how these representatives and their close constituents, adhere to anything but the advancement of corporate interests, especially in thriving bio-tech of today. The circumstantial evidence here does make the outsider judgement a bit murkier, definitely.