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Has Russia legalised intellectual-property theft?
- ggm 4y agoThe soviet union certainly did. It's a tenable position if you have the world view that knowledge of "how" is not natural property. They stole ideas frescale pre and during and postwar. Design for chemical processes, carbon copied the b29, you name it. Richard Rhodes books on the bombs discusses this. Innovation was more risky for a soviet scientist than cloning stolen IPR. A lot of people think IPR and patents give less than they take, nett. Who knows? If I'd been alive then, I might have done the same. A true funny story: my dad was a CPGB member until the 50s. His research project was shut down and he offered his IPR to the soviets as a good party member should. They refused to take it over the counter, he was made to do a clandestine handover in a park in London. Totally bizarre, it's his papers and designs, his to give freely but they insisted it was done in secret.