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Originally Posted by Giggleton
We simply imagine the farming robot as a text, in other words the robot is the software code that someone has written. Should this someone be given license fees in perpetuity for their design? Would letting this robot only function in locales that could afford the licensing fees be fair? Or should we simply give the robot's designers a certain number of years to collect fees from the robot's use?
Certainly the designer should be remunerated? But how? Withholding the robot from those who could not afford the licensing fees seems cruel and unusual doesn't it?
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And once the robots start to design and build their own robots, do we have to pay licensing fees to the robots?