Haha, I guess I'm violating IP by doing this, but for the sake of teaching IP:
| Akvod's Textbook said: In oiur modern economy, ideas, designs, or processes contribute to the goods and services we enjoy. These ideas -- and the research and creativity behind them -- are called intellectual property. To be sure that inventors benefit from their work, the government gives them intellectual property rights. The rights take several forms. Patents cover inventions; copyrights apply to creative communications (books, films, music). Brands, trade names, and logos apply to the names, designs, and even songs and jingles that identify products and services. But how much intellectual property is necessary? There is a tradeoff top rotecting intellectual property. On the one hand, if anyone could copy free of charge all CDs, DVDs, software, drugs, and other idea products, their creators wouldn't reap any rewards for their efforts, other than the satisfaction of knowing many people enjoyed or benefited from them ... On the other hand, especially with digital and molecular technologies, the cost of making an additional copy of a CD, DVD, piece of software, drug, or most other "idea" products is almost zero. And so they could be avaiable to many people for free, or at very low cost -- possibly spreading their benefits to hundreds of millions. Consider the value to poor people around the world of a new drug that fights tuberculosis. ... Ideas themselves, can't be turned into private property. Most ideas found in the books of university professors, for example, aren't private property. They're for everyone to have. Only the books and articles themselves are copyrighted. |
| Alterego-X said: There is a difference between IP laws and copyright protection. Intellectual property, in some form, always exists since property exists. "It is my plan, my story, my painting, don't use it." A world without IP laws would need to be a utopian communist society where everyone gets everything, and artist only work for the sake of art, scientists invent things only for science, and Starfleet officers voluntarily explore the Galaxy just for fun, and virtue. On the other hand, copyright protection laws rose around the industrial revolution, when mass production was expensive, and copying it was a big deal. Getting profits from it was just a side effect, since the product was sold for profit, the IP owner could keep it, and thus, directly selling the IP material for money became the standard business model. In any other situation, they would have been forced to find another source of revenue. Now the Internet is changing things again. It is the Information Age. Copying things is no longer a big deal. Every downloading is a copy. When you use a copyrighted character as your avatar, you copy it. When you get rickrolled, you copy that song into your PC's memory from Youtube. When you take a screenshot from the game you are playing, and you copy the on-screen characters that are the publisher's IP. As music, gaming, books, and films are getting changed to Digital Distribution, people start wondering: what stops them from copying them as casually as they copy every other data in their life? Some old obscure law from an age when copying was big deal? Publishers might keep their IPs, but they MUST soon find new ways for revenue instead of selling the product for a price, as there is no longer a product, just some sort of service. |
I'll love to type the entire text book, but I'm tired and shouldn't O.o
Look, if we go the route of vlad, we will be denying people to trade or give ANYTHING. How many things are NOT copyrighted, involve patented technology, or not have a fucking brand name? Especially when we live in a modern society with mass production instead of some local farmers building a desk. No, when you buy a desk from IKEA, there's a brand name on it, an person who designed the desk (crappily probably, if it's from IKEA) and submited his design to be protected.
I can't even give my can of Coke away since Coca Cola has the IP rights to it.
*** HOWEVER, IP IS ONLY INVOLVED IN FUCKING PRODUCING >.< ***
Coca cola, doesn't actually have any rights over my can of coke. It's MY private property, not theirs. I simply don't have the right to use their brand name to sell my own cheap coke formula.
I can own a game and give it away and sell it. I just don't have the right to PRODUCE (or REPRODUCE) the game myself, and sell it. Or make my own game and slap Bioshock with the same cover art on it, and sell it.
