--- Eric Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 05/30/05 10:57, you wrote:
> >Eric Hines wrote:
> >
> >>Actually, the concept of patents and copyrights is a good one
> >
> >I'd agree about copyrights, but not patents. I think that getting a
> >monopoly on an IDEA is ridiculous.
>
> Patent monopoly rights are very similar to copyright monopoly rights--just
copyright rights are not actually monopoly rights, not even in the US and
certainly
not elsewhere. Patent roihgts are not really monopoly rights either. Specificly,
they don't allow you to make or own anything, they merely allow you to prohibit
others from doing so.
> need some (not so minor) tweaks: shorter lifetime for the monopoly (at
> least in the US, this needs to be applied to copyrights, too); mandatory
> licensing, similar to copyright fair use requirements.
>
Sander
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