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Not just small, also big companies. Why spent billions of dollars researching a new technology when, as soon as you figure it out, someone else copies it for a
by posix86 3y ago
Not just small, also big companies. Why spent billions of dollars researching a new technology when, as soon as you figure it out, someone else copies it for a millionth of the cost? The dominant strategy will be just to wait for others, which might slow progress a lot.
- LtWorf 3y agoCopyright and patents aren't the same at all.
- kasey_junk 3y agoBut they protect creators in the same sorts of ways.
- goodpoint 3y agoNo, they were supposed to protect creators. Now they protect big corps and harm small ones and people.
- kasey_junk 3y agoI don’t know how you can hold the position that copyrights do that but patents don’t.
- goodpoint 3y agoI never said that and I don't. Both copyrights and patents are being weaponized by big players.
- chrismcb 3y agoI'm not sure how they (copyrights? Patents?) Harm small ones and people? For copyrights it works be nice to get some of our culture sooner, but I don't think it harms us. Same for patents. You can make an argument that both should be shorter. I would also accept that software patents shouldn't exist)I think they are definitely rubber stamped to much) but how is the small creator harmed?
- LtWorf 3y agoThey patent anything, and DCMA takedowns are basically random. After that, if you can't afford lawyers you're screwed regardless of the validity of the claim.
- goodpoint 3y agoOrgs with big budgets create large patent portfolios that use as a legal weapon against small companies. It's widely documented.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoso... like copyright?
- dventimi 3y agoWell, they're the same at least insofar as they're government-granted monopolies.
- thereddaikon 3y agoYou're thinking of patents which are similar but concern technical inventions whereas copyright is for creative works. And then you have trademarks which are for business branding. They are all government enforced monopolies on ideas but different kinds of ideas, each with limitations and with the intent to facilitate economic activity. Reforming copyright shouldn't have an effect on patent law.