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0 pointsEridrus17d ago0 comments

The point of IP is to encourage the creation of new things.

Not all protections have to be ones that give total control like copyright.

I think it's a mistaken assumption that costs will fall to zero. The low hanging fruit will get picked, and then we'll be doing expensive combined AI/wetlab search for new drugs.

If there is any meaningful headroom we will keep doing expensive things to make progress.

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matheusmoreira17d ago

> The point of IP is to encourage the creation of new things.

Then why are corporations allowed to milk successful works for all eternity? Why do we have Disney monopolizing films made half a century ago? Why do we have Nintendo selling people the exact same Mario ROMs from the 80s every single console generation?

They should have like 10 years of copyright so they can turn a profit. Once it expires it's over and the work enters the public domain where it belongs. If they want to keep profiting they should have to keep creating new things. They shouldn't be able to turn shared culture into eternal intellectual property portfolios that they monopolize and then sit on like dragons.

EridrusOP16d ago

There is always drift between intent and implementation, but to be generous here, Disney is generally making new works with their IP and so is Nintendo.

I am somewhat curious what you think shortening the copyright window would do that's so great for the culture though. We already have more than enough IP slop that's just licensed.

matheusmoreira16d ago

> Disney is generally making new works with their IP and so is Nintendo

Let them profit from those new works then. All the works from the last century belong in the public domain.

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