hollywood was a place for the film industry to build not just for the sunny weather but because they were far away from edison’s patent lawyers
and of course we all know how america handed intellectual property to china without any hope of enforcing IP, they seem to have developed quite rapidly
but i grant you USA and China may be exceptions, but stealing IP looks very profitable to me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330810
If anyone knows even more, it would be greatly appreciated.
-- Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
My country once banned imports so that national industry would be forced to develop. The Lua programming language exists because of this policy. Also, plenty of companies would either license or reverse engineer and clone foreign products. Now my country is some kind of globalist hell. It's painful to see in legal doctrine ideas straight out of WHO, IMF, UN, etc.
It's so disgusting it makes me wish China success despite their repressive state. They have an amazing strategy: entice the west to hand over intellectual property on silver platter, develop industry, get rich and then, who knows? We'll have to watch to see what their end game is.
One common ways developing countries use to build their industrial know how and capacity is to get a foreign company to create a development in it. A factory, manufacturing center, or R&D site. Companies are much more reluctant to do so, if the host country is not willing to protect their IP.