Comments on: Why Patents Should Be Abolished https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-patents-should-be-abolished/2009/12/21 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:10:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Mark https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-patents-should-be-abolished/2009/12/21/comment-page-1#comment-420311 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:10:55 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=6451#comment-420311 If these are the key arguments…they are in trouble. The movement to abolish IP is based on conjecture and ignorance. Maybe a comparison of innovation in different countries would serve them well. Compare the innovation levels in the United States (historically strong IP protection)with socialist and communist countries where there is little, if any, protection of IP. These countries are experts at stealing IP, but not developing it.

]]> By: Nick Taylor https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-patents-should-be-abolished/2009/12/21/comment-page-1#comment-420306 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:30:18 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=6451#comment-420306 IP doesn’t increase incentives to innovate, IP increases incentives to invest.

A really big and really important distinction – that investors (or more accurately, “the invested”) would like to deliberately obscure… to make it look as though they are a vital part of the creative process… which often they are, but not at the (root) level they’re claiming…

… and not at a level where granting them monopolies over knowledge creates a net value for the wider system. It’s damaging. It’s not burning our books so future generations miss out, it’s parking our arses on them so THIS generation misses out. Sure we need investment – but we need a means of providing incentive such that we’re clogging our innovation-systems with legal goo.

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