• @fcSolar
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      71 year ago

      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.

    • phillaholic
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      11 year ago

      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?