z1235
January 15, 2010, 3:47pm
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Welcome. I suggest that you and everyone willing to respond should first read the following threads on the subject and only proceed here if they thought that a point hasn’t previously been addressed:
Suppose the following was true:
There exists no IP law. A talented director, called James Cameron shoots a film called Avatar which cost more than $ 200 million to produce and $ 150 million to market. The production company sells a copy to a cinema owner. Now other cinema owners approach him and ask him to make copies of the film and sell it to them for a lower price than the production company charges. (Okay, now you will tell me that the production company could have made a contract with the …
Yes, many reviewers linger on the corporation vs natives story, and how the evil humans want to destroy everything that the nature-bound Na’vi hold dear. But apart from the message of the story, what message does the film itself send out?
That five hundred million dollars in capital were invested based on one single man’s vision that it could be turned into a vehicle for tenfold profits, that this vision could bring wonder and joy to people of all nations, and that he could bring it to market w…
What would happen to the software industry?
Since it would make it legitimate to copy and resell any piece of software, it will seriously cut into profits of larger software giants. The entire line of thinking that you are a licensee of the software handed to you, and not the owner of it through the physical property that contains this intangible property, would no longer be valid.
It is often said by men like Sowell and Friedman that losses are more important than profits. Losses are crucial …
Z.