Copyrights…
Generally speaking, I am pro-copyright. I think people should be protected when they create something. I don’t want people to just copy my work and presenting it as their own, but there is something wrong with the current law on copyrights.
Copyright, yes, but reduce the time where the rights are held.
Same goes for patents.
A pharma company spends millions or billions on creating a new drug. They wouldn’t if they wouldn’t hold the patent’s right on it. So we need patents to promote creating inventions. What we do not need is laws that prevents innovations.
Software patents are particularly bad. You spend more time checking if your ideas are patented than actually coming up with the ideas. That is just not right.
Sorry for ranting. I was discussing this with Molegro Mikael just the other day, so it’s been on my mind lately.
I really don’t know what the right balance is between public domain and copyrights, but I strongly feel that the current situation is just wrong.
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August 31st, 2009 at 8:33 am
The basic problem with copyright is that it is assumed that one model could work for all mediums and creations. The fact that the music industry has done so much lobbying to insure the future income of record labels is in fact sickening as this was never about artists. I will never come to like music the industry for their draconic methods and views of what is property.
The question on copyrighting algorithms is a huge problem since noone wants to work on some algorithm for several decades just to see it being free for all when finished. Putting restrictions on what algorithms you can use stunts the progress of science and is in general a bad idea…