RE: If prostitution was legalized
May 2, 2012 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2012 at 9:37 pm by Violet.)
(May 2, 2012 at 8:31 pm)libalchris Wrote: I don't want to get into a whole off-topic discussion, but while it does seem ridiculous ostensibly, at the same time without it there's not much incentive to spend time and money to produce good software when you won't get much return for it.
And I'm considering patents on the same line of moronic thought.
On the contrary... innovators almost always meet their opportunity cost. What copyright then ensures is that the innovator has a monopoly over that innovation (for an excessively unreasonable period of time). It prevents competition (without which there is little progression), and the very existence of it denies much independent cooperation (companies will join together to manufacture a product that the patents of both prevents them from doing so individually).
Light concession, without copyright: innovators would have a harder time amassing sums far exceeding their opportunity cost.
Anyway... catch. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/in...gainst.htm It's a free version of a really awesome book I bought.
At its best, copyright and patent length should be reduced to a fraction of their current length.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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