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Patents and Copyrights

Submitted by Wayne on Mon, 2007-06-18 09:13.

Patents and copyrights may have been commonplace in the 18th century, but they seem to have outlived their usefulness in the 21st. Do we really need them today? Actors, for example, couldn't command obscene 20 million dollar salaries if copyrights didn't exist. Movie stars would be just ordinary people again. Publishing would certainly be a quite different industry. Of course, fraud is still immoral even without copyright or patent laws, so attributing plagiarized work inaccurately would still be criminal. I am beginning to think it may be quite possible to live without patents and copyrights.

What do you think? Should I remove the copyright and trademark information in TuscanyCircle's footer? What about my upcoming books? Should I refrain from copyrighting them even informally?

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Submitted by Wayne on Mon, 2007-06-18 09:20.

I suppose it boils down to the idea of intellectual property. Can it be owned just as more tangible material is owned? If owned, then ownership must be protected. Or is intellectual property, once it's in the public domain, no longer able to be owned? Is this akin to publishing a secret such that it's no longer a secret at all?

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Submitted by Wayne on Wed, 2007-12-26 21:29.

Due to the overwhelming feedback I've received on this topic </sarcasm>, I've chosen to remove the copyright and trademark notices on TuscanyCircle.

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