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Businesses were innovative long before patents and copyright became a thing. In fact, evidence shows that society was more innovative without patents and copyright than with.

For your reading pleasure:

Against Intellectual Monopoly

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Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
“Do inventors lose because of this? Probably.”

This calls out the exact problem with this when glosses over it. With big companies able to now swing in and steal any idea this doesn’t work. Times have changed, your idea can be ripped away and sold to everyone while you get nothing. But the mindset of this article is that “there are more copies of your idea out there so it’s cheaper for everyone.” This ignores that the inventor has less motivation to actually invent.

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- rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  This ignores that the inventor has less motivation to actually invent. Author have less motivation to create.
  
  Tell me you haven’t read the entire book without actually saying you haven’t done much more than browse a few pages.
  
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  - Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I didn’t read the whole book, I didn’t have time.
    
    But since you claim to have, explain how that problem is solved. I mean you read it all right? So correct me, how is that problem solved? Show me how big of an idiot I am.
    
    Or is this just a deflection.
    
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