[ExI] 'Copyright'

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Dave Sill via extropy-chat
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>…What about patents? Should we throw them out, too? Who would research and create new drugs without a cost-recovery mechanism?

 

-Dave

 

 

Amateurs, working alone.  The new drugs won’t work of course, but at least they will be free.

 

The message in this whole discussion is very clear: without some kind of way to pay people for production of intellectual property, most people won’t do it.  Market forces the quality away from Stevie Wonder toward Londre Sylvester .

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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