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The intellectual property system that lets you sue your competitors because they are using your IP is a privilege. It's not a right. Not a human right. It's not
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
The intellectual property system that lets you sue your competitors because they are using your IP is a privilege. It's not a right. Not a human right. It's not in UN or otherwise ratified lists of human rights - right? And corporations aren't person anyway.
So, it's a privilege, so the public does have the veto power. If it says, "no patent racketeering" - they don't do it or cease to exist as a legal business.
The problem is that nobody is there to call the veto.
- kenjackson 15y agoI think you just stated this wrong. Read this: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/olson/archives/003331.shtml http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/olson/archives/003331.sht... Just a different take on why IP is a natural right. The author gives a suggestion that we in software may want to heed: "stop calling it intellectual property". Maybe "intellectual discovery" instead?
- guard-of-terra 15y agoWhere are any links on intellectual property being human right? Patents aren't "in software". Patents are written by lawyers, for lawyers, and are obviously a property of kinds (can be sold without being a service).
- kenjackson 15y agoWow, my post read almost the complete opposite of what I intended. I meant to say that the author gives another argument for why IP is NOT a natural right. Spell checking is nice, but my main problem is writing the opposite of what I mean.