a lot of industries will no longer have the incentive to be innovative or creative as using other’s ideas is much cheaper
That’s already what they do, it’s just those people are on their payroll. Industries don’t create, they absorb and proliferate.
Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
People suggesting this are shortsighted and naive. Removing IP means that a lot of industries will no longer have the incentive to be innovative or creative as using other’s ideas is much cheaper. This will hamper productivity of our society in the long term.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 week ago
If you copy everyone else you’re not going to be profiting much, as your product isn’t competitive. You have to keep iterating on an idea to stay ahead of the competition.
IP law lets companies stop innovating after they’ve come up with a product, because other companies cannot directly compete using the same or a similar design.
Did Android phones stop innovating because Apple did a smartphone first?
Lightor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is no naive…
Like there are a million different waters you can buy at the grocery store but somehow there are companies that dominate three space?
You are ignoring things like advertising, branding, manufacturing quality, distribution, etc. If your logic held, at all, generics of products would outsell brand names because they are more available and cost less. But people but brand name still.
Android innovated and now they make a ton of of the OS and embedding their apps in there.
You’re ignoring situations like say, you spent 5 years of your life writing a book. Guess what, another company can print and sell it, giving you nothing. Then can then manufacturer and sell merch around it, at scale, and you get nothing. They could then even start a live action play about it, it could win awards, and they never have to ever mention you. They could actually just bury you and muddy the water, saying they created it and calling you a liar.
Yeah, there’s a reason rich people want this.