liveforphysics
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Let's discuss thoughts on the concept of intellectual property rights.
First, I will start with some definitions of the term, to clarify the meaning of the expression, as it wasn't even in common use in the USA prior to ~1980s.
intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights)
Intellectual property (IP) are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law
Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value, especially copyrighted material, patents, and trademarks
A form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design or integrated circuit topography.
Intellectual Property, or IP, is the group of legal rights to things people create or invent. Intellectual property rights typically include patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret rights.
My personal feelings can be best summed up by Thomas Jefferson in this quote:
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
â€â€Thomas Jefferson, to Isaac McPherson 13 Aug. 1813 Writings 13:333--35[17]"
Do you guys think IPR is something that helps the world?
Do you think IPR aids or hinders mankind?
Do you think the world would be a better place to live with no IPR?
There are a lot of very sharp folks on this board with a lot of life experiences. I would love to hear some thoughts.
First, I will start with some definitions of the term, to clarify the meaning of the expression, as it wasn't even in common use in the USA prior to ~1980s.
intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights)
Intellectual property (IP) are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law
Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value, especially copyrighted material, patents, and trademarks
A form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design or integrated circuit topography.
Intellectual Property, or IP, is the group of legal rights to things people create or invent. Intellectual property rights typically include patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret rights.
My personal feelings can be best summed up by Thomas Jefferson in this quote:
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
â€â€Thomas Jefferson, to Isaac McPherson 13 Aug. 1813 Writings 13:333--35[17]"
Do you guys think IPR is something that helps the world?
Do you think IPR aids or hinders mankind?
Do you think the world would be a better place to live with no IPR?
There are a lot of very sharp folks on this board with a lot of life experiences. I would love to hear some thoughts.