Trademark is the only form of intellectual property which seems reasonable to me - in a strictly limited, literal sense. Like a coffee farm stamping their sign on their product, or a tool manufacturer doing the same. Not this shit where it is used to sue fanfic writers and whatnot. Especially not this industrial design shit where companies like Apple come out and claim "well, a tablet with rounded corners and no buttons on the front is not a functional choice. It's actually our signature"
Patents? They're bullshit. Completely meaningless in a world where consumer products broach upon hundreds of individual patents. Ideas are a dime a dozen. The only thing that matters is who owns the means of production. The mythical "smalltime inventor" is going to get fucked by the captialist with the gigafactory no matter what. In practice they are only used to stifle competition and advance monopolization.
Copyright? Fuck out of here. Maybe 5 years as a compromise, but the whole idea of doing artificial scarcity on information in the digital age is garbage. We need better methods of supporting artists.
Trademark is the only form of intellectual property which seems reasonable to me - in a strictly limited, literal sense. Like a coffee farm stamping their sign on their product, or a tool manufacturer doing the same. Not this shit where it is used to sue fanfic writers and whatnot. Especially not this industrial design shit where companies like Apple come out and claim "well, a tablet with rounded corners and no buttons on the front is not a functional choice. It's actually our signature"
Patents? They're bullshit. Completely meaningless in a world where consumer products broach upon hundreds of individual patents. Ideas are a dime a dozen. The only thing that matters is who owns the means of production. The mythical "smalltime inventor" is going to get fucked by the captialist with the gigafactory no matter what. In practice they are only used to stifle competition and advance monopolization.
Copyright? Fuck out of here. Maybe 5 years as a compromise, but the whole idea of doing artificial scarcity on information in the digital age is garbage. We need better methods of supporting artists.
Trade Secret? LMAO. Gulag.