This is already the only way scientists make a living
Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoExactly. Without IP, scientists and researchers could only make a living through government funding. And that means governments also fully control the research and development. A free market needs IP. It’s fundamental.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not true. You mean scientists employed by universities. I mean scientists working in R&D of companies.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Companies do hardly any real or worthwhile r&d, they do product design and marketing.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
You’re making this argument via FOSS.
Lightor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Acting like FOSS is representing all creative work is dishonest.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Why wouldn’t we buy his book? Is it bad?
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Because Amazon stole it, made a copy available for 1/10 the price.
The marketing power of Amazon is 10’s of thousands of times greater than the original author, so you probably never hear that the book you are interested in has an author that is different from the one Amazon puts on the cover, who is a pen name of their “AI author”.
Note: I think IP law is a bit shit really, but removing any protection from creative works is dangerous, and extremely short sighted. If you don’t want to reward the corporations, learn to pirate…piracy is far more ethical than calling for the removal of IP law.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So? You can have both.
Besides, most FOSS projects specify a license that forbids stealing the code and using it in ways to make profits while not contributing back or making the fork open themselves. These licenses protect the IP of the FOSS projects. There are countless lawsuits of FOSS projects against IP theft. Without IP, FOSS projects will have a hard time to justify their work.