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I apologize, I thought you were implying that IP and AC were incompatable.
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Patents also act to destroy real property rights. If you claim that I cannot use my materials to build a wagon because you "own" the "idea" of the wagon wheel, you have obviously reduced my rights in my own physical property. Destroying rights in tangible property in deference to rights in some completely itagible concept seems incredibly dangerous to me.
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I agree, life is filled with peril.
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So it's OK for you to engage in aggressive acts? "Hey, you might get hit by a falling rock, so I feel justified in mugging you!"
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I don’t own the idea of the wagon wheel, I earned the right to exploit it commercially by coming up with it first. A patent doesn’t automagically bar competition in Stateland. In ACland A patent WILL NOT protect an inventor who isn’t doing anything with his invention. The same way a homesteader owns land because he got there first, a patent shows who thought it first. In ACland A patent holder should have to show that s/he is making an attempt at commercial use or licensing. The same way a homesteader must mix his labor with his land.
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Huh? Who's granting patents in ACland?
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There is a demand for wagon wheels, I invent them, but any Og can infringe my rights because of need? Sound familiar?
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Og has done nothing to infringe upon you. You have no right to restrain his activities that do not aggress against you. You have no right to exclusive trading in any given commodity, because to do so requires restraint on both buyers and sellers, neither of which have consented to such restraints.
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What do you tell the fourth or fortieth generation after AC is established: “I know all the fertile land is taken, should have been born earlier, sucks to be you! I guess you could invent something to make a living, oops it really sucks to be you!. Get a job HYACHACHACHA!”
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Wait, did I miss something? Is there some government agency passing out unclaimed land to anyone who wants some?
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Why would anyone labor on his own to come up with anything if anyone else can exploit it commercially?
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You say this like it's never happened.
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In ACland the greedy, capitalist, competitive culture is overflowing with wealthy guys going around buying up patents from inventors just so he can prevent any and all new comers from making money and incidentally, not making any money himself, and of course there are plenty of lazy, not greedy, not competitive, brilliant/lucky inventors who go through the trouble of getting a patent to make that quick pay day? Again so what?
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WTF? What patents are being bought in ACland? How are these patents used to prevent other people from doing stuff?
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So If I invent a USB drive, any and all chip manufacturers are free to produce and sell as many as they want, because I still invented it? Where do you sell glory in ACland? Without IP protection there won’t be any competition. It doesn’t have to be state sanctioned any more than the intangible concept of
owning property. Their physical property isn’t an intangible concept? At least in Stateland it’s mine if I pay my taxes. My understanding of AC is that it isn’t perfect. What do you suggest inventors do in order to compete with established companies? What’s the difference between state sanctioned violence and market sanctioned violence?
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Selling glory? Market-sanctioned violence? Inventors wishing to compete will have to come up with their own ideas - that's part of competeing. Why is someone else required to do their homework for them?
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Cliff notes: 1967 Invented intermittent wipers. Took them to Ford. Ford told him to leave the room. Ford invites him back in. Ford tells him they’re not interested. He leaves. 1969 Ford starts manufacturing his wipers. Other companies follow suit. He looses his mind trying to sue them and 25 other companies. 1990-1991 courts awarded 10 million from Ford and Crysler. 2005 he dies.
Wiki Passenger Vehicles in the United States According to my math: from 1969-1989 (20 years patent protection (25 years IMO for ACland or one generation if life spans/birth rates change)) 194 million vehicles were sold in the U.S. alone. That amounts to $0.10 a vehicle 25 years later.
How this man was not robbed!. No new company no new employees no new market, but he sure still had his idea.
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What was he robbed of? He got $10 million??
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IP doesn’t help innovation, it helps competition. It helps new un-established companies compete.
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It helps some people, at the expense of restraining others.
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IMO it’s the other way around. Patents which expire and only protect commercial exploitation should exist. Copyrights (70 years + the life of the copyrighter) should not. How is it that Stephen Kings fiction is protected (his entire freaking life+!) but Joe Schmo USB drive is not?
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Well, first of all, copyright doesn't place restraints on those who may come up with an idea
independently. Patents do.
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What are you going to do to Og when he walks by an (your) apple tree and eats an apple? Tell him it’s yours because you planted it? How did he get it then? Don’t you realize that apples can grow without your labor (not economically scarce much)?
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Apples are clearly scarce. If you take an apple from me, I no longer have it.
And labor is also scarce. I only get one shot at laboring for a particular hour. If someone else appropriates that labor, I miss out on it.