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Re:H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) by zucker42 on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:58AM (#23749226)
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do.

For one, this claim suffers from a correlation/causation issue. But also, do you have an actual citation for research which shows this is true?

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Re:H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) by waterhouse on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:00PM (#23749857)
Chapter 8 [1] of Against Intellectual Monopoly, "Does Intellectual Monopoly Increase Innovation?" looks into this, including comparing countries with stronger patent laws vs weaker laws. The results seem pretty decidedly mixed.

[1] http://www.dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.8.m1004.pdf

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