Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by mindcrime on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:00PM
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Human Knowledge Belongs To The World
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Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by melling on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:12PM
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Yeah, but someone has to pay for it and someone has to do all of the work.
Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by tbagman on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:18PM
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The compromise that intellectual property strives for is to encourage innovation by rewarding inventors with time-limited exclusive rights in exchange for disclosure. The world gains the knowledge through the disclosure, the inventor gains the opportunity to commercialize and earn rewards through the advantage that time-limited exclusion gives them, and once the IP reverts to the public domain, everybody gets the chance to use the invention.
But, factors like patent sharking, the ridiculous extension of copyright terms, the inability of patent offices to properly assess issues like novelty and obviousness, and so on, make it possible for all parties to abuse this compromise.
I think the spirit of the compromise is valid. I think its implementation today has become flawed, but not irreparably so.
Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by sliverstorm on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:53PM
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pish posh, why should we care about implementation details?
Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by melling on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:38PM
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I guess you'll just have to wait until someone else works out the details. Soon you will discover that not much is going to get done sitting on your hands waiting for everyone else to do the work.
Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t...
by sliverstorm on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:33PM
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ok, so once they spend the money and do the work though, we get to take it from them right?