On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:15:19PM -0000, Michael Chapman wrote: > I must disagree. > Patents _do_ distort the market.
As does any monopoly, even a temporary one. I'd very much want to see some changes to patent law, like for example a patent being cancelled if within a reasonable time there are not at least four or five effectively competing licencees, all of them bound to the same conditions. Intellectual property, just like property of physical goods, does not exist naturally - it is something granted by society to individuals in the hope that society will benefit by doing so. If that doesn't happen there is no reason why it should exist. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
