Comment

Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

<- View Parent

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Copyright needs to go back to 30 years. You have 30 years on a patent to make money off it. If you haven’t already made your money back, and a handsome profit in that time, you should have hired a business manager year 2.

source

Sort:hotnew top

Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Parents are either 14 or 20 years, depending on type. Copyright is absurdly long, but copyright also doesn’t apply to drugs, inventions, recipes, game rules, mathematical formulae - mostly just creative works.

source
- AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ok, 14 to 20 years on patents seems reasonable. I would still set copyright back to 30 years, since as you pointed out, it’s really only affecting the public domain.
  
  source
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d be okay with that, but acting like copyright doesn’t exist for a reason or ever do any good… Isn’t helping actually lead to a solution :)

source