It's awful! I hate IP laws for several reasons, but we can't share data in medicine because different companies own research.
We don't have access to collective knowledge because it's not profitable. And then there are the little bits of capitalism that further hinder research innovations: paywalls, different user interfaces for different sites making it hard to cross-reference information, junk studies that were published because somebody wanted to make a quick buck.
It's awful! I hate IP laws for several reasons, but we can't share data in medicine because different companies own research.
We don't have access to collective knowledge because it's not profitable. And then there are the little bits of capitalism that further hinder research innovations: paywalls, different user interfaces for different sites making it hard to cross-reference information, junk studies that were published because somebody wanted to make a quick buck.
Patent law just needs to not exist.