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I like the sound of that a lot. If your copyright is really profitable, you should be able to afford to pay for its protection. Should this perhaps apply to pa
by acjohnson55 13y ago
I like the sound of that a lot. If your copyright is really profitable, you should be able to afford to pay for its protection.
Should this perhaps apply to patent law as well?
- throwawaykf03 13y agoFor patents, you do have to pay maintenance fees to renew a patent at the 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 year marks after issuance to keep it active, else it goes abandoned. A vast number of patents go un-renewed and lapse that (1) few patents turn out to be "profitable", and (2) most patents don't last their full terms.
- acjohnson55 13y agoThe geometric part of the idea is what really caught my eye. I think there's something to be said for a steeply escalating cost for maintaining publicly protected monopoly rights.