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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

People work for material gain. By not entitling creators to the product of their labour you will discourage them from creating (and also be stealing from them). Patent law is exactly the kind of thing that protects the interests of working people but our current system is too weak to stand up to corporations.

What happens if the person who can solve climate change decides instead to trade stocks because saving the world doesn't put food on the table?

IP laws are not your enemy, corporations are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The people who create products don't own the IP, the company that employs them does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Again, not a problem with IP law, a problem with corporate structure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It is a problem with the law, corporations should not be allowed to own IP only the creator of the IP

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