• @BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world
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    -719 hours ago

    How about no. Let people create if your only incentive is money fuck you. If someone spent $50 million to develop something the labor has been paid. You will be first to the market and you can make money if your invention isn’t that unique oh well.

    • @Womble@lemmy.world
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      719 hours ago

      Thats a great way to make companies spend 0 on r&d that has longterm benefits and instead focus on squeezing out every penny from current assets.

      • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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        118 hours ago

        Want to make something, the people eho want it pay to make it happen, once it’s done and paid for, it belongs to everyone. I rather live in the star citizen dystopia than the Disney vampire dystopia.

        Making an unlimited reproducible resource artificially scarce for 160 years is really fucking evil parasiticism.

        • @Womble@lemmy.world
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          16 hours ago

          I dont think anyone here thinks that the ridiculous terms on current IP laws make sense (at least I havent seen anyone defending them), but there is a big difference between a short term of 5-10 years for you to get the earned benefits of an innovation you created and zero protection where a larger more well funded company can swoop in copy your invention and bury you in marketing so they get the reward.

          • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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            155 minutes ago

            Intellectual property has been abused beyond recovery, we need an entirely new paradigm. Duration of right is just a tiny part of it. Any system that turns the infinite resource into an artificial scarcity is fundamentally evil.

      • RubberDuck
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        -118 hours ago

        So you tax the fuck out of them and fund invention though schools and unis. But the fact companies won’t is not a sure thing… it just means they will be more pickey.