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| Authored by: reiisi on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 10:37 AM EST |
Nothing is created ex-nihilo.
Nothing new under the sun.
There is no difference between creativity and inventiveness.
The issue is the degree to which a new creation/invention/work sets up a thing
with a separate identity.
The US Constitution says nothing about money, only exclusive right for a limited
time. Equating everything to money is a quick way to destroy meaning and value.
(Bear with me here.)
The GPL provides a better means of securing rights for inventors to their
discoveries than any intellectual property law we have ever had.
(Patent and copyright law before the Berne Convention were not intellectual
property law. But I'm thinking we should strip copyright and patent law down to
the minimum which would still support GPL and similar licensing arrangements,
forbid corporate ownership of patents, copyrights, or trademarks, and some other
things in a similar vein.)
Rights to an invention are about controlling what can be done with it in the
market place. What is done in private has nothing to do with the inventor or the
invention, if it is kept private. Social contracts like the GPL or the openBSD
project guidelines provide both a framework for control and the social
structures to support the control.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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