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It’s not about protecting their rights, it’s about encouraging corporations to release the processes of their invention. The point is that we provide legally en
by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
It’s not about protecting their rights, it’s about encouraging corporations to release the processes of their invention. The point is that we provide legally enforced protection in exchange for it entering the public domain after a few years. The alternative is corporate secrets that never become public (unless stolen), like the formula for Coca Cola.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoCopyright explicitly doesn't do this. Try and get source for pretty much any commercial software. Patents generally don't these days either, the patents are so vague and general that you can't reproduce the device using the patent or even know which of the 50 off-handedly mentioned methods is used to implement a general idea like 'synchronizing some clocks to measure a thing but using radio waves or the internet' A sane system would require registration andnsource and only last a handful of years.