If a patent had to have had a prototype made before granting a patent, then half of the litigation wouldn't even happen, period. But that's not always necessary. This simple step would help fix one of the majjor issues with patents, as they are now.
In a sense, yes. Not because of who invented it, but because the original iPod made it simple to move from track to track, to select a song, and to change the volume.
It was not the contents, but the method involved which was simplified.
Dude! You're forgetting that the US is like a tiny version of the Intertubes! There's, like, 500 clusters of tubes and the rest so soooo far away enough that we can gouge them even more for shittier service!
Consider this: Kickstarter can also be used as a demand-gauge. This is the key point: it permits others to invest in you to get a product that they're interested in, with compariatively little risk to either that Kickstarter of the Kickstartee.
Think of the uses this has for blind people when becoming accustomed to their new home: Use the software, make a minature 3D model of the home and use your tactile/haptic sonsors to adjust quickly and effectively.
If you were truly willing to stand by your principles, you would be willing to post there under your actual name. After all, you have the luck of being abloe to attack Mike so much.
I'm merely pointing out the flaws in your own logic here: that you keep parroting statistics for which the conclusions may be grey at best.
No , stealing shit on the high seas is piracy. Any other meaning is propogandist talk.
There are four simple solutions for most IP problems:
1) No middlemen permitted to hold IP (so no "labels/studios hold the copyright", no Intellectual Ventures crap etc.)
2) A much shortened length for IPR to actually apply;
3) Personal use copying to be made fully legal;
4) Fair use is the default position of the law.
99% of the problems with IP go away at that point.
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And what if you didn't want a copyright in the first place? There is no official mechanism enshrined in law to permit that. Technically speaking, the CC licenses are not fit for purpose, as the works still do not go itno the public domain.
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If a patent had to have had a prototype made before granting a patent, then half of the litigation wouldn't even happen, period. But that's not always necessary. This simple step would help fix one of the majjor issues with patents, as they are now.
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It was not the contents, but the method involved which was simplified.
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Then why am I unable to purchase some US artists legitimately that interest me?
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I'm merely pointing out the flaws in your own logic here: that you keep parroting statistics for which the conclusions may be grey at best.
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There are four simple solutions for most IP problems:
1) No middlemen permitted to hold IP (so no "labels/studios hold the copyright", no Intellectual Ventures crap etc.)
2) A much shortened length for IPR to actually apply;
3) Personal use copying to be made fully legal;
4) Fair use is the default position of the law.
99% of the problems with IP go away at that point.
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OH, well, the inner pedant is settled now.
And as for the IEEE, is this the same group behind the FireWire port? Because if so, lulz can be had.
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What false advertising!
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