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To: Fester Chugabrew

Do you take the same view on patents? Should all life-saving drugs be locked up in government-granted monopolies in perpetuity? Really?

As I asked, before how much extra should we all be paying for our cars for the perpetual royalties to the estate of Nikolaus Otto? How about Charles Goodyear? Gaston Planté?

Or do you have some argument that a fictional character is more worthy of being the subject of a perpetual government monopoly than the internal combustion engine, vulcanized rubber, or the lead-acid battery? If so why?

And how robust a notion of fair-use are you allowing in your notion of perpetual remuneration? If your regime were in place, would I have to pay the estate of William Butler Yeats for reusing the line “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” in a published work, or only if I quoted the whole poem “The Second Coming”?

And why do you have a problem with us mathematicians charging to use our discoveries? How are they different than a device that can be patented or a fictional character that can be copyrighted? Why exactly shouldn’t our “intellectual property” be subject to the same kind of protection? I put more creative effort into the development of the infinitesimal deformation theory for pasting diagrams of linear categories than old Walt put into “Steamboat Willie”. Why exactly do you think I should not be able to charge people to use the results in my two papers on the subject and prevent them from being used if they don’t pay, but Disney Corporation should be able to do the same for their cartoon mouse?


24 posted on 11/18/2014 5:30:48 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

The subject is copyrights, not patents. You make a mockery of the nature and intent of copyright law which simply prohibits your use of other’s inventions to MAKE MONEY FOR YOURSELF. Use it to your heart’s content. But don’t profit from it unless you share those profits (usually in a small percentage) with the creator.


25 posted on 11/18/2014 5:36:03 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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