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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Hardly. Oddly enough the IP movement is really being pushed by patents rather copyright, thought we mostly talk about copyright here.
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I think not.
A company has to pay more than the lousy 56 $ to file a patent, it's not automatically granted, it costs to "maintain" it after granting, and,
more important,
it lasts only
20 years since the filing date.
Also a patent won't bring 80 million $ in the first weekend in movie theatres.
ANd it's teritorially restrcited (or pay more to have it enforced also in Senegal, or China, or N Korea).
But in one respect the patents try to emulate copyrights, they will eventually be applied to everything that is born out of the human mind.