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Tauchert 2000: good old times
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| In 2000 Tauchert spoke open about the commercial benefit of the patent system
| for patent examiners and the lack of need for economic analysis.
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| [...]
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| Harmut Pilch: Is it really appropriate to make software patentable, without
| conducting a systematic study of the economical effects of such a change
| first.
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| Tauchert, DPMA: Absolutely. We don't need economic studies. The reality
| speaks for itself. The market already made its judgement. We receive every
| year thousands of applications for software patents and our patent system is
| profitable. It feeds without state subsidies 20 000 patent specialists.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-58767/tauchert-2000:good-old-times
On the Erosion of the Public Domain
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| It is a damn shame that we no longer think of the public domain as an option
| that is attractive. It’s a sign of the victory of the content holders that
| the free licensing movements work against that something without a license –
| something that is truly free, not just just free “as in” – is somehow thought
| to be worse. We’ve bought into their games if we allow the public domain to
| be defined as the BSD. The idea of the public domain has been subjected to
| continuous erosion thanks to both the big content companies and our own
| movements, to the point where we think freedom only comes in a contract.
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http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/wilbanks/2008/05/10/on-the-erosion-of-the-public-domain
Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements in
Brazil
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| As a matter of fact, in virtue of our dependent condition and the profound
| inequalities that mark Brazil, we experience deeply all the problems related
| to present day science and technology in a most extreme way; here the private
| appropriation of the fruits of research by corporations has a devastating
| impact on the majority of the population, who are marginalized by the
| market – reinforcing the importance of the defense of science as a public
| good.
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http://fsm-science.org/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=AppelBresil
Related:
Against Intellectual Monopoly
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| It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and
| patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions
| such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and
| movies. In fact intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all,
| but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly
| over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is
| not neccesary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth,
| prosperity and liberty.
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http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
How Microsoft Prevents Innovation
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| Despite its reputation among some consumers as an innovative company,
| Microsoft's number one goal is actually the opposite of innovation.
| Microsoft, like any other monopolist, can only succeed by preventing
| innovation. Here is a short summary of how they do it.
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http://www.vcnet.com/bms/features/noinnovation.shtml
Tech Fusion Outline: Organising the World's Knowledge.
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| # Dissolving WIPO - The World Intellectual Property Organisation needs to be
| shut down - or its job transformed into one which *protects* sovereign
| nations from the interference of intellectual "property" hoarding. I consider
| the concept of "Intellectual Property" to be "slavery". even the name says
| so! Intellectual. Property. Intelligence. Owned. Information. Enslaved. It's
| got to stop. We're not a bunch of savages. any more.
|
| # Dissolution of Patents. See above. Also: see the documentary "The
| Corporation". Even the reasons why the Patent system was created is flawed:
| hoarding of information so that the inventor can benefit from it is so
| completely against the grain of an enlightened world that it hardly needs
| mentioning - but there will be people reading this who will genuinely
| believe - just like the Victorians did about their life-long human captives -
| that Slavery is perfectly acceptable because "everyone does it".
|
| # Banning of Articles of Incorporation with "profit" as the main focus. This
| is absolutely essential. There are plenty of alternative Articles of
| Incorporation where profits are made, but not at the expense of world
| resources. Companies House has a boilerplate designed for social clubs.
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http://www.advogato.org/article/964.html
Fashion Designers Turning To Patents To Protect Their Designs (And Kill The
Industry)
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| After all, here was a highly competitive, extremely profitable, exceptionally
| innovative creative industry -- and it was doing all that without copyright
| protection. It seemed to show quite the opposite of what many in the
| entertainment industry predicted would happen without copyrights.
| Unfortunately, though, the lessons seemed to go in the other direction. The
| fashion industry got jealous of the entertainment industry's ability to crack
| down on innovation with copyrights and pushed Congress to introduce new
| legislation that would add a copyright for fashion design. Recently such laws
| have been getting a big push from politicians who are pandering to the
| fashion industry. Of course, studies have shown that the very reason the
| industry has thrived was because the lack of IP protection. In fact, one bit
| of research showed that adding IP protections to fashion could kill the
| industry.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080327/002456664.shtml
Against Intellectual Monopoly
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| Many – including myself - believe that a better description of copyright and
| patents is to call them “intellectual monopolies”, since they are just that:
| state-granted monopolies that give the power to exclude others from using
| certain kinds of ideas.
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| Once you move away from the loaded “intellectual property”, you can examine
| objectively whether such intellectual monopolies are, in fact, beneficial for
| society – both in terms of those holding them, and those who must operate
| with them.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=427&blogid=14
Threat Of Jail Time Increases Respect For Copyright, Microsoft Says
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| It's not clear whether Microsoft's statement to teen respondents -- "When you
| do not follow these rules you are open to significant fines and possibly jail
| time" -- is entirely accurate, particularly when teens under the age of 18
| are involved. Emily Berger, an intellectual property fellow at the Electronic
| Frontier Foundation, is skeptical. "I think it's being used as a scare
| tactic," she said. "It's a real stretch of the law to say it's theoretically
| possible."
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http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503467
Microsoft training youth to love intellectual property
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| Take, for example, its commitment to help teenagers understand the importance
| of respecting intellectual property (read: giving Microsoft more money). It
| just put out a survey showing that when kids understand the rules of
| copyright, they're "less likely to download illegally."
|
| [...]
|
| The one thing it didn't explain to teens is why they should retrofit
| 20th-century copyright laws onto 21st-century realities. Digitization is a
| fact. The web is a fact. Intellectual property is not the same as real,
| tangible property, and should be treated and monetized differently.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9871636-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
What Does "IP" Really Mean?
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| For readers of Linux Journal, "IP" almost certainly refers to the Internet
| Protocol, part of the TCP/IP suite that underpins the Internet. But to most
| people, if it means anything, "IP" refers to something known as "intellectual
| property". This widespread recognition is rather curious,
| because "intellectual property" does not exist.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005736
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
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