Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:39:56 -0400 | From | Scott Robert Ladd <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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Timothy Miller wrote: > I believe that it's very important that an author have rights to > profit exclusively from their creations. It gives them incentive to > create. I mean, if every time you developed some cool new > technology, some foreign company took it, made huge profits from it, > and left you with out a dime for all of your effort, wouldn't that > put a huge kink in your desire to expend that sort of effort? > > On the other hand, I don't believe people should rest on their > laurels. Limited rights is an incentive to get off one's behind and > create another thing. > > I think patent periods should be very strongly enforced and SHORT. > Like most of these patents that we think of as frivolous should be > allowed, but the time limit should be at most a year or two. Many of > these 'defensive' patents that companies like Amazon have are > actually good things because they ensure that these ideas go into the > public domain. If some patent is deemed particularly clever, then the > limit should be more like five years. > > I have mixed feelings on defensive patents. "Since I know that > you're going to patent what I'm already doing and then sue me over > it, I'm going to beat you to the punch and patent it to protect > myself." It makes sense in a very sad sort of way.
I just want to "second" your excellent thoughts. Well said.
..Scott
-- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
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