I wonder if anyone has trademarked the terms “Global Warming” “Climate Change” or the like. It would be funny if that could be done and Gore and the EcoFreaks could be sued every time they used them. :0)
fascinating....
That is, it isn't property, and it can't be owned, and there's no fundamental right to it.
Properties, trademarks, and patents are legal monopolies granted by the government because doing so is believed to be in the public interest.
The Congress shall have power ... [t]o 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
If the current laws no longer serve the public interest, they need to be changed. And any discussion of "rights" during the discussion of what they should be changed to needs to be squashed.
If you want to see a society as well as a country that does NOT value Intellectual Property, I suggest you look at China.
They have grown great once again off of the hard work and knowledge garnered by that hard work, simply by stealing it right and left. Historically the Chinese have always done this, they see nothing wrong with the idea of theft of ideas and Intellectual Property.
IP is mostly a Western Civilization idea, it is truly one of the bedrock foundations of our civilization. Come up with an idea that is new and you MIGHT make it rich off of that idea and hard work too.
China doesn’t think or work that way, which is why it is such a rigidly stratified society, Confucianism was praised for that very concept of rigid placement in their society. It also explains why such a hard working people have not advanced for several thousand years until there was a new source of ideas to steal and spread out in their society.
Too bad they didn’t look at the negative aspects of the ideas they stole. Their rivers and arable land are nearly unrecoverable from the pollution they have spread on them. That’s what happens when you steal ideas and don’t look at the consequences that CAN accompany them.
95 years is ridiculous. 25 would be more appropriate.
Sorry, you can’t own Happy Birthday. They might think they own it, but they don’t.
John’s slightly off on his facts: the Roman Empire had running water and flush toilets.
Bait and switch.
The author starts out citing useful technical inventions, but the article then focuses only on copyright matters.
Rush Limbaugh makes a heap of cash in making use of the Golden EIB microphone and writing books, both of which would be worthless without the way he crafts and expresses ideas.
Horse feces. You are taking the ability of the originator to charge a FEE for the use of the idea. It's theft.