ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? —“CURT: What’s your position on intellectual propert

https://propertarianism.com/2016/08/16/qa-curt-whats-your-position-on-intellectual-property/POSITION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?

—“CURT: What’s your position on intellectual property?”— Sean Ring

Net Net:

1 – Trademark = weight and measure, not license to partial monopoly.

2 – Copyright convert to Creative Commons Protection. (may not use for commercial purposes, but may not prohibit non-commercial use) Prohibition on profiting without homesteading, but does not license a partial monopoly.

3 – Patents reserve for basic research, or off book production of commons. Licenses a partial monopoly in order to conduct off book research, development, and risk.

In particular, eliminate conflation of trademark, copyright, and patent. Trademark protection is testable by 2 or 3 second identity measurement. In other words, you can trademark a visual representation of a product and test it against a set of consumers selected by lot. In other words, Gucci bags and Iphone interfaces can be trademarked but not copyrighted or patented, so that as long as a user can distinguish them visually (weight and measure) in a few seconds (two or three) then it’s not a violation of trademark. We have a lot of research that shows this is sufficient line of demarcation for consumers to identify a brand (weight and measure) from one that is an imitation. (which is the origin of trademarks).

This position eliminates intellectual property per se; separates market from non-market activity, yet preserves the people’s right to use off book research and development.

https://propertarianism.com/2016/08/16/qa-curt-whats-your-position-on-intellectual-property/

PURPOSE

Aside from repairing the various immoralities that have evolved from intellectual property, my intention is to DEFUND the immoralities that are made POSSIBLE by intellectual property:

– Funding Hollywood propaganda.

– Funding the news media.

– Funding propaganda literature

– Funding the academy’s authors of propaganda

– Funding the artificial scarcity of research papers produced by public funds.

In other words, defunding the left.