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Originally Posted by kennyc
What needs to happen is that the laws need to change to insure that intellectual property is treated AS PROPERTY and enforced and managed in as near an identical manner as real property as possible.
As I have told you numerous times and in numerous threads - stop beating your one dead horse and stick to the topic at hand.
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Not if we want to progress. All you saying are an empty rhetorics, where are the facts?
The facts are, that patent laws became so generic and invasive, that the progress actually stops in many cases because of them instead of going forward. New screen technologies getting buried because LCD manufacturers are hitting new ideas with lawsuits for the patents, many new video codecs are in danger of becoming extinct because Mpeg-LA threatening them with lawsuits for patents which shouldn't have been awarded to begin with.
It is not that dire yet in Copyright world, but it's getting there where consumers have no say in how they can use the books they bought, blog authors cannot comment on many things and fan fiction is moving like a little girl in the dark woods. But I guess nobody can convince you even after the examples with Shakespeare and all Arthurian legend literature mentioned before. Would you really prefer for the estate of Geoffrey of Monmouth, to stop Thomas Malory, Tennyson, Mark Twain etc from publishing their work? Never see Tristan and Isolda?
Are you really that oblivious to facts? We had works of genius lasting over millenia created when there was no mention of copyright and still you try to scare us with drying up of creativity if the copyright will be curtailed to something much less invasive?
Hard to believe to say the least.