nonentity comments on Why Fewer People Are Challenging Bad Patents

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All patents are bad, intellectual property is one of the most harmful and corrosive constructs of the modern world.

Ownership of intrinsically infinite resources needs to cease being normalised, and replaced with attribution.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They just need a shorter term, or a mandatory licensing fee. Because if I'm an inventor and pour life savings into perfecting a product, and then it is unprotected, everyone one elese benefits while I lose my house from no income and debt. The inventor takes a risk, and should be compensated. Just not forever or 75 years.

The way licensing works for artist doing cover songs makes sense. Antone can cover another song but its a small mandatory fee to the creator per copy sold, or a smaller fee per minute of streamed audio.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 child)

No, granting exclusivity over an idea incentivises individualistic and sociopathic behaviour.

Replacing the current regime with a mechanism that rewards spreading the knowledge and comprehension of information and ideas better aligns with their intrinsic nature.

Rigorously testing and refining knowledge should be the primary goal of creative and intellectual work, with financial compensation and remuneration an indirect subservient system.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 17 hours ago

Well that utopia doesn't exist, so good luck. We need an interim measure still.

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