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Time for Europe to Use the Nuclear Option: Attack US Patent and Copyright Monopolies (cepr.net)
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[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Roll back to 20 year copyright on media. Absolute bullshit for grandkids to be authorities on works created by people they didnt know and had no hand in creating.

[โ€“] obvs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this point, itโ€™s been pretty well proven that the idea of intellectual property does a lot more harm just in general than any problem it supposedly solves.

You want to end all of the monopolies? Take away the idea that ideas can be owned.

And all of these companies that routinely buy off elections? They canโ€™t compete with free.

All of these medicines which cost ten million dollars per pill? People would LOVE to pay $5 per pill for them.

The idea of intellectual property does NOT spur innovation. That claim is laughable. What it DOES spur is the creation of the least valuable workable solution, and then the smallest possible incremental improvement whenever the patent or copyright is about to run out. It literally PREVENTS useful technologies from coming to market, and prevents the poor(who would rush into many job markets if there werenโ€™t literal IP restrictions on them) from working in many cases.

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I do think that creators should get a chance with their creations, be it a character a technology or a drug. I just dont think Mickey Mouse should belong to someone now.

[โ€“] PheasantPlucker@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

It's ok for Mickey Mouse to belong to someone - as a trademark. But the old films should be out of copyright.