Copyright should only mean “I got here first”.
Copyright reform AND Patent reform are long overdue
You have people wasting hours and hours filing patent requests for the stupidest of things
I worked for one company who invited a guy to every technology meetingt and we wasted at least half of each meeting with him butting in with comments about filing for a patent for anything anyone said
If you invent something new, or somethign you THINK is new, you should just be able to submit a simple form, and then it is registered and stamped with the date
There should be no need to search every exiting patent to see if something resembles it, that costs a lot of time and money
just file it, and then it is up to you to defend it, if someone else makes a million bucks off the idea.
Of interest PING!
As a writer and the spouse of a composer, I disgree. The copyright laws are too lax and limited - they should be perpetual, just like property ownership.
Another interpretation of the article is that young people love stealing copyrighted work, don’t respect the concept of copyright to begin with, don’t understand why downloading music for free is illegal, think it’s find to film movies in theaters and upload them to torrent sites, and the GOP is going to have trouble reaching these young people if they keep respecting the idea of copyright.
You know which young people are NOT looking to amend copyright laws? Young people who have become artists, who keep getting their work stolen when they can barely make a living on it anyway.
That's because the government is too big and too corrupt.
The GOP and the government became hostile to technology when W too office.
the GOP:
Winning the hearts and minds of lobbyist
Losing the hearts and minds of everyone else
Change your registration to independent. They need to see the more consequences besides the disastrous election of 2012.
The concept of copyright began as an effort by Royalty to control information distribution by “unauthorized” printers. Can’t have folks like Martin Luther running amok printing stuff to upset the subjects, doncha know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law