• InternetTubes@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Funny thing, patents aren’t really international, more like agreements between different patent systems internationally. There are places that will ignore certain patents, and like The Pirate Bay showed, there only needs to be one place where the IP laws don’t jive for it to be available for anyone who wants it - but that’s not the goal of a business, who wants to access as many markets as it is able to sell their product.

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        1 year ago

        Patents, copyright and trademark do nothing but make rich people richer and stifle innovation.

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          They encourage creation. Trademarks are different. In order to do so properly, they should be far more limited.

          Right now the forever copyright means no one can remix sixty year old stories

          Right now patents are issued for trivial IT “inventions” which stifle competing products.

          Trademarks are fine. They are intended to protect you from misleading products. They let Apple sue people that sell stuff which might mislead you into thinking it’s an apple product.

          Of course trademarks are also abused, for example Apple uses trademarks to prevent recycling iPhone parts. That couple be fixed.

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            Right now the forever copyright means no one can remix sixty year old stories

            You can’t even reprint 60-year-old stories.