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Prose analogy patents

Posted Dec 5, 2008 1:20 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Prose analogy patents by felixfix
Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble

> when what it really needs is to disappear altogether

This really is a political problem. A powerful and influential minority convinced governments around the world that keeping their monopolies is a good idea. Well, if people are complaining when the price of petrol goes up, so should they when the price of music, books, films and software does the same. Otherwise, we've go nobody to blame but ourselves.

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Prose analogy patents

Posted Dec 5, 2008 1:43 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

The big money interests are digging their own grave as far as I'm concerned. They build these big life + 95 year fences around their factory work and forget that fences work both ways; not only have they kept their factory work safe from the public, but they have given the public every incentive to do their own work and ignore the factory work. Sooner or later, as Britney has shown, factory work will be so blandized and homogenized that it will only be used for elevators and dentists' offices. All the real popular culture has long since moved beyond their fences and out of their control. I don't know how much is under Creative Commons licenses, but I suspect it will only increase, and the entertainment factories have locked themselves out of that with their copyright fences.