Intellectual property (copyrights, patents, pirating, etc)

Totofan99 · 26-02-2013 06:31PM

V_Moth wrote: »

With tools such as Kickstarter, Youtube, Facebook etc, it is now so much easier for musicians, authors and other artists to get their works seen/heard and potentially make a good living without the need for Copyright.

But there is a need for copyright. Musicians, authors, etc. can of course sell their work for free, but there is still a need for copyright so that nobody can steal their material and market it as their own without giving credit!

Seachmall · 26-02-2013 08:56PM

Totofan99 wrote: »

but there is still a need for copyright so that nobody can steal their material and market it as their own without giving credit!

Absolutely, but there's a balance to be met between allowing creators to profit and enjoy rights to their work and not stifling progression. That balance may (arguably) be less of a big deal in artistic endeavors but in terms of technology and science it's of huge importance.

Simply put we wouldn't be anywhere near technologically or scientifically advanced if people had to fear lawsuits every time they wanted to try out a variation of an already existing concept.

Capt'n Midnight · 26-02-2013 11:08PM

hooradiation wrote: »

Because if you want to have something you have to pay for it?

Besides, complaining that copyright is now longer than the life of the creator doesn't mean the other extreme is the answer, now does it?

where did I suggest the other extreme was the answer ?

what I was suggesting was a return to the original ideas behind copyright/patents instead of "forever minus a day"

I showed that the situation changed drastically not that long ago (in copyright terms)

many 1963 films have been public domain for the last 22 years
no 1964 film will be public domain for another 21 years and that only if there was a Fr Ted style plane crash that killed everyone involved. Realistically it'll be another 50 years before those films will be public domain.

1963 is an interesting year , because that's 50 years ago and that means that any thing broadcast on radio or TV is now public domain, which is the sort of stuff they show on the cheaper satellite channels.

Re Patents , many technologies are obsolete by the time the patent is over so the information won't ever be used by anyone else. The data CD was invented in 1985 (yellow book) and fewer new computers have those drives. Did any type of floppy disk exist for 27 years ? Look at VCR's, Look at DVD players.

Granting monopolies on the basis that secrets will be shared is crazy when the secrets no longer matter - yes the patents on the composition (but perhaps not the methodologies) of making the magnetic coating for 1.44MB disks has expired, but what use is that information to someone who couldn't trade using that technology and now has to catch up in a world where a 3.5" disk can now hold 1,440 000 MB

State of the art today is storing a bit in 12 atoms. Though at room temperature it may take a few hundred.

Don't get me started on patents and copyright and paywalls funded by the public purse - this includes most medical stuff since health care is money out of peoples pockets

Dwork · 26-02-2013 11:26PM

Zillah wrote: »

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Truncheon Rouge · 27-02-2013 12:23AM

China will save us.

I ruv you China.

Intellectual property (copyrights, patents, pirating, etc)

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