Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by dmitriid on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:19AM
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Yes. "Insisting to be paid" for a vaccine to combat global pandemic.
If you don't see an issue with that, then you need to amend the following:
> In historical times, vaccines didn't exist and everyone died when a pandemic struck.
Amendment: now it's the poor countries who die.
> The historical alternative to IP law is trade secrets
Yes, historically it is. But it's shades and shades of possibilities between "you pay, or you die" and "you pay, or you die, but for different reasons"
If you don't see an issue with that, then you need to amend the following:
> In historical times, vaccines didn't exist and everyone died when a pandemic struck.
Amendment: now it's the poor countries who die.
> The historical alternative to IP law is trade secrets
Yes, historically it is. But it's shades and shades of possibilities between "you pay, or you die" and "you pay, or you die, but for different reasons"