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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Maybe it has something to do with the apparent ease of breeding new Irises?
If something is realitively easy to do and most anyone could do it and then make a fair bit of money from that endeavour over the next couple of years then I'm sure lots of people will do it. Then when the money dries up from that flower they just move on to the next one and start the process over again.
By the number of posts relating to how much bad writing there is out then I'm sure you'd agree writing(at least something good that will make a fair bit of money in only a couple of years) is probably not so easy.
So maybe the combination of doing something pretty easy, coupled with the fact you can make a fair bit of money in a couple of years, is why the flower breeding business continues to thrive without the need for patents?
Cheers,
PKFFW
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Commercially breeding perennial plants is not easy, and very much a numbers game, with or without patents. I consider it painting with DNA, instead of ink or oil.
All copyright is a numbers game. I don't consider a work good or bad, but popular or unpopular. A work could be held in extreme esteem but a small group (a "cult classic") and ignored the the mass public (or even actively disliked by the mass public). I won't say this it's a bad work, just unpopular. and Vice Versa.
So the question to me is, why does the Patent world work so well, (with the patent trolls being the function equivalent of "pirates") at a length of 20 years. (Look around, do you see a shortage of inventiveness?) But the copyright world has to have a term longer than Lex Luthar in the Superman movies. Everything in the US was written under a max of 56 Years of less until 1976. Explain to me how (for example) Elvis, Hemmingway, Maxfield Parrish, or Humphrey Bogart didn't create because their right didn't go on long enough.
Pure land grab. So while corporations are "stealing" my patrimony though excessive length copyright, other people are "stealing" things back. And as McCauley noted in 1841, they aren't being too fussy about what they steal, either...