[ProgSoc] Red Hat asks US Supreme Court to bar software patents

Bryn Davies curious.jp at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 14:42:05 EST 2009


2009/10/5 Bryn Davies <curious.jp at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Roland Turner <raz at raz.cx> wrote:
>> The power of congress to grant monopolies in order to promote the
>> development of ideas can't reasonably be said to include the power to
>> grant incentives to dead people (who, by virtue of being dead, can't
>> produce any ideas at all, much less produce more ideas in response to
>> incentives).
>
>  Now now, is it so hard to believe that people might want to benefit
> their survivors? It also increases the value of the assignable right,
> which enables them to sell it for more money here and now. Assignation
> has always been a big part of the property concept, IP no exception.

 Erp, mea culpa, Raz - I thought you were referring to the extension
of copyright protection to live + 70.

 B.

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