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Intellectual property is not the same thing as physical property. They serve entirely different purposes.
by dbrian 14y ago
Intellectual property is not the same thing as physical property. They serve entirely different purposes.
- rayiner 14y agoThe point is that "Kodak would still innovate without the ability to liquidate patents in bankruptcy" isn't any more or less true when it comes to patents than when it comes to any other kind of property, because the mecahnism is the same, even if the purposes underlying the two kinds of property are different.
- dbrian 14y agoPatents expire. The ownership of your house does not. We already have different rules for governing each.