03-08-2012, 12:54 PM | #196 | |
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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." |
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03-08-2012, 02:09 PM | #198 |
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I suppose you could believe the written history of copyright if you choose to. But for most of copyright's history it was used as a tool of censorship. To think that the purpose of copyright magically changed once it reached the United States is bit foolish if you ask me.
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03-08-2012, 02:47 PM | #200 | |
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No one said or in any way, shape or form implied that the purpose of copyright had changed when it reached the United States. Copyright came about because of the ease of printing meant that authors weren't getting paid for their work; publishers could simply print up copies of the work without paying the author. The intent of copyright was to ensure that authors had an incentive to create. If the ease of the printing press created a need for copyright, the need for copyright surely still exists when even easier means of copying exist. |
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03-08-2012, 04:34 PM | #201 | |
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If only the poor Inventors had invented something really useful, like a big-eared mouse, then they wouldn't be stuck with only 20 years of exclusive Right, and we could look forward to a period of massive scientific, medical and technological changes? |
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03-08-2012, 07:30 PM | #202 | |
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03-08-2012, 11:37 PM | #204 | |
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No question that the mouse deserves monopoly protection at least 350% longer than the unimportant patents which protect such irrelevant inventions and companies. And Al Gore is in trouble - his internet patent just expired! (BTW - I think your sarcasm meter needs servicing. Maybe the patent on that has expired also?) |
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Once they start making enough to afford medicines, the mouse packs up to some country where the people will work for less.
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That the mouse did in the past (and it worked out very well for countries like Taiwan, HK, Korea, etc --- they upgraded the industries and can offer their people very high standards of living, but they all started with shoes, bags, garments, and toys) --- but where will they go? China has 1.4 billion people. All the alternatives that are left, combined, can't provide half the workers. That is why wages in China have been going through the roof.
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