<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I don't know if there's never an incentive. Perhaps you meant to say a money incentive, but even in that case there are examples of things where people make money but can use IP. The food and fashion industries abound such examples as recipes and fashions, for the most part, do not fall under IP protection in the US and most countries -- to my knowledge. Yet, people seem to make money as fashion designers and as chefs. At least, it seems, most of these folks aren't working pro bono.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jeffery P. Davis <heavensblade23@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, March 3, 2010 2:51:13 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] intellectual property again<BR></FONT><BR>I've been struggling for an original thought here since I've done this discussion so many times on so many different forums.<BR><BR>How about a humble suggestion: Create a tax break for releasing creative works into the public domain. There's currently no real incentive to ever release anything into the public domain.<BR>-- <BR>"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other
principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."<BR>- William S. Burroughs <BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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