Comments on: The End Of Copyright https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/12/the-end-of-copyright/ UX Designer + Full-Stack Dev Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: nathan https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/12/the-end-of-copyright/#comment-6395 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:34:13 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/12/01/the-end-of-copyright/#comment-6395 Copyrights are all that keep bands and young authors alive. They’re the reason that downloading music is illegal, and the reason that Research & Development companies exist.

And as far as the entire copyright/patent thing goes, well there aren’t many Thomas Edisons out there just going off inventing things for the hell of it, it’s a money making business and if there is nothing to say that the people who invent things will be the ones making money from it, then who’s going to invent the next radio, or automobile, or car?

I’ve heard the argument that patents hinder innovation, in that once someone invents product X, no one is allowed to improve on it. Well here in the US, your product only needs to be 10{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} different, I think. Otherwise, a person can come up with a different way to get product Y to act like product X, which is complete innovation…

And as far as disbanning all copyrights – well how many movies do you think Hollywood is going to produce next year if some scalper in China is allowed to videotape each one and sell them for 1/10th of the price?

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