3 ms·
Pointing out that IP is broken is _not_ easy because most people believe in the contradictory notion of intellectual property, you included, not knowing the leg
by capr 3y ago
Pointing out that IP is broken is _not_ easy because most people believe in the contradictory notion of intellectual property, you included, not knowing the legal history of IP, the legal and economic history of the concept of property, and so on. If it were easy, it would be obvious to everybody that 1) IP law is immoral and 2) nothing bad would happen if it's abolished outright.
Here's a free ebook on the subject, written by a patent lawyer no less: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
- mike_d 3y ago> 2) nothing bad would happen if it's abolished outright. It is interesting that people living in the places with the weakest IP laws will pay a premium to import baby formula from the places with the strictest laws. > Here's a free ebook on the subject Of course it is some right-libertarian wonk piece.
- immibis 3y agoThis has nothing to do with IP laws, and everything to do with baby formula laws. You don't seriously think that without the ability to sell the recipe, nobody would invent a safe and effective baby formula, right?
- mike_d 3y agoI'm not sure you fully grasp all the dimensions of IP law. If you have two brands of baby formula, Death brand that kills babies, and OK brand that is perfectly fine, and you start putting Death brand in fake cans labeled OK brand - that is absolutely an IP enforcement issue. The desire of OK brand to protect their brand, and profits, combined with reasonable IP laws allows them to lead enforcement actions and protect consumers.
- immibis 3y agoThat is absolutely not the kind of intellectual property that anyone hates. The kind of intellectual property we are talking about is the one where Death isn't allowed to make baby formula that doesn't kill babies, because OK patented making baby formula that doesn't kill babies and won't give them a license.
- xigoi 3y ago> you start putting Death brand in fake cans labeled OK brand - that is absolutely an IP enforcement issue. This is a matter of trademark, which is completely orthogonal to copyright and nobody is protesting against it here.
- capr 3y agoEvery place on earth already has laws against deception and scams since thousands years ago, this has nothing to do with IP law.
- capr 3y agoI'm pretty sure a patent lawyer would know more about IP than you do, so I'm not sure who's the wonk here.