why did you write about DVD’s and a bag? you wrote it to demonstrate something…you didn’t pull it off. man up.
The same as everywhere else on the globe. Zero.
Do you have any idea as to what your saying? This is either a naive or dishonest response. Either you don’t know what your talking about or you’re showing additional signs of desperation in your argumentation. Either way it’s being dishonest. As I told stranger earlier, lying doesn’t add more weight to your argument.
So the lack of legal positivism makes a third world country? What a novel statement you have t here Stranger.
Do yourself a favor, and Z to, don’t respond if your not in familiar territory. Such nonsensical responses are not beneficial to your argument.
I laughed.
my guess is that if you had a basic knowledge of how cars worked you would be able to manufacter a copy of a car from looking at it. Also, is someone who drives a car supposed to force everyone that he gives a ride to to sign a contract not to copy the car?
Cars aren’t copyrighted anyway.
When you sign these book contracts or whatever, are you also not allowed to write notes into them or highlight them? If you lend this book out to someone his is not reading the authors work, he is reading a co-authored work, what is to stop him from copying this work?
What about translations? What is to stop someone from buying a book and translating it and making a bunch of copies?
No, you are an accomplice, as you are rewarding the perpetrator for the crime.
No you’re not.
How? Brian fulfilled the terms of the penalty clause of the contract. Adam already has been compensated for Brian’s actions.
Try copying a Britney Spears song and selling it.
The state grants the monopolies. They are called copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
Nobody.
Obviously, the state grants the copyright, patent, and trademark monopolies to whomever pays the fees.
Without the state, no one would be able to enforce a monopoly on an idea.
I could work at a factory, and know exactly how a particular car is built and then go reproduce the exact same car. The relevant point he is obviously making is that he built the exact same car. It is irrelevant how he figured out how to build it.
Sharp. How much software, film, books, production? Wouldn’t you agree that the prevalence and observance of IP laws in a country is proportional to the production/creation of the entities that such laws address? We’ll address causality later on, but you could take a hint.
Actually, I do. Existence, observance, and enforcement of property laws is a fundamental precondition for growth in production, consumption, and exchange in such property – TP or IP, regardless. Most 3rd world countries remain so exactly because of their failure to establish and/or enforce consistent property laws, making them unfriendly areas to business.
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z, you’ve yet to show that there is such a thing as “intellectual property” in the first place.
Try singing and producing an album yourself, or invest in searching for talent, or call Britney Spears and propose her a production deal. There’s no monopoly whatsoever in doing any of these things. The only “monopoly” in IP is the very equivalent of the TP (tangible property) “monopoly” that’s stopping me from stealing your car and selling it.
Please stop strawman-ing IP as merely ideas. Ideas are intangible, but not ALL intangible things are IP. The idea of producing the film “Titanic”, is just an idea. The fact of actually producing it (and creating the pattern of billions of 0s and 1s that represent the investment and work of hundreds of people creating it) is MUCH MORE than just an idea. Without the state, creators of IP will either find ways of enforcing IP laws (just like you will find ways of enforcing NAP) or such IP products would not be created/traded (just like TP products would not get created/traded without NAP enforcement). Myself, I prefer a world with more than tomatoes and potatoes being produced and exchanged in it. If more people have the same preference, IP laws will be there and you’ll be s**t out of luck with your “TP only” stance.
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A large part of the worlds software production is done outside of the states FYI.
This is blatantly false, and I imagine you just made it up just now. Thanks for so gracefully demonstrating your lack of knowledge in 3rd world countries and their conditions. Please disabuse yourself of silly claims that 3rd world countries have no concept of private property.
Question for Pro-IPers.
- Why is it that the costs of software are high regardless of the volume produced?
- Why is it that software’s costs are exponentially higher then hardware, especially since the capital involved, and R&D invested into hardware is so much higher than software, and the fact that there is less volume of hardware produced and distributed.
- Why does software behave so radically different than tangible goods on the market?
Because it is considerably risky to make and so there has to exist a significant potential for profit before some enterprise will commit the capital to its production, most of which consists of fixed costs.
Your sir have utilized the car joke, which you did not create, and have gained psychic profit from the exploitation of another… There’s a performative contradiction somewhere in there; I just know it.
And when did I claim there was? There is no monopoly in building a power plant either. Duh. The monopoly is when the government does not allow anyone else to build a power plant. Or if I come up with a song, the monopoly is when the government does not let anyone else copy the song.
Do you think “steal” and “copy” are synonyms? If not, then how would that be equivalent? When I copy a song, does the original song disappear? Or does the original owner still have the song? If the original owner still has the song, than what has been stolen? Or is it more like a power plant having a monopoly, and I build a competing power plant, and “steal” revenue from the other company? Would you consider lost revenue from competition as theft?
And building a power plant would take a lot of effort and resources. And that would entitle the builder to a monopoly how?
It is relevant if he violated the property rights of the creator.
Once again, you people do not seem to understand the physics of information. It is impossible for someone to know how to reproduce a car exactly from bare memory.
So you don’t think another company could build a car that looks and performs pretty much exactly like a competing car companies car? If you do think it is possible, do you have a problem with it? Or is your issue only with building an exact replica? As long as some parts are not exactly the same, it would be OK with you?
No one is fooled into believing that an imitation is the genuine thing, in quality and workmanship. A copy, however, is theft.
Without copying the media, you could not arrive at any parts that are exactly the same, as only the media carries exact information.
What was stolen?