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> Copyrights and parents provide assurances that spending large sums of money (millions/billions) to create new technology won’t be in vain. There are issues wi
by alexvoda 4y ago
> Copyrights and parents provide assurances that spending large sums of money (millions/billions) to create new technology won’t be in vain. There are issues with both (too long copyright, patent trolls, obvious patents) but they are better than not having any protections.
That is th biggest lie of intellectual property.
Just having a patent or copyright on something does NOT guarantee income. The assurance is a perpetuated myth.
Either are only good if you can find someone willing to pay for licences.
In many cases, reality has proven that economic actors find it preferable to spend resources to avoid having to pay for licences. See all of the duplicate work in IT an patent proliferation in pharma.
Many many patents only ever had an impact on the world after they expired.
- vbezhenar 4y ago> Many many patents only ever had an impact on the world after they expired. Many trade secrets were lost forever and didn’t impact the world.
- alexvoda 4y agoAnything that is worth keeping as a trade secret is still being kept a trade secret. Patents are a tool to disincentivise trade secrets and that is good, but they do a lot more than that and much of it is harmful.
- antonvs 4y ago> Either are only good if you can find someone willing to pay for licences. Many more patents are created by companies that are producing the patented products themselves. They're not looking for anyone to pay for licenses, they're looking for protection against people copying what they're doing.