I actually started writing up a a new constitution a while ago as a sort of thought experiment. It’s not finished yet but some of the highlights thus far include:
A unicameral congress, with uncapped membership
A right to privacy, free education, internet, and government transparency
Freedom from religion clauses
Constitutionally limited intellectual property: Copyright is 15 years for corporations, life for individuals.
Uncapped supreme court, 2 appointments per presidential term
Right, patents are a whole separate thing. I added a clarification above that the 15 years/life is for copyright. The way I did patents is that corporations are ineligible for patents, and individuals get them for 5 years.
As long as labor is necessary, some form of market economy is likely to crop up, and as long as there’s some form of market economy I’m hesitant to limit the ability for individual creators to make a living in said market economy, so I’m not sure I’d personally go for such a large carve-out from patent protections.
free to reproduce Patented and otherwise protected physical items to any end, provided you make no profit in doing so.
How would you prevent a company with gains from other means coming in and destroying a competitor only to start charging for their version after the other company goes under?
I actually started writing up a a new constitution a while ago as a sort of thought experiment. It’s not finished yet but some of the highlights thus far include:
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Right, patents are a whole separate thing. I added a clarification above that the 15 years/life is for copyright. The way I did patents is that corporations are ineligible for patents, and individuals get them for 5 years.
As long as labor is necessary, some form of market economy is likely to crop up, and as long as there’s some form of market economy I’m hesitant to limit the ability for individual creators to make a living in said market economy, so I’m not sure I’d personally go for such a large carve-out from patent protections.
How would you prevent a company with gains from other means coming in and destroying a competitor only to start charging for their version after the other company goes under?
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Power doesn’t disappear. If it doesn’t exist in corporate form it’ll exist in political form.
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