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RE: Rapper DMX Sentenced To A Year In Prison For Tax Fraud - Songs Played In Court As Defense
if you improve an invention in any significant way then you can get a patent, something in someone's mind is useless if they are not activily persuing developing it. We have all seen something and said "I thought of that" but we didn't risk any of our capital or spend any of our time to pursue or develop it, or even bother to protect it. Thus it is not a right to harm anyone, it is a right to defend one's property.
You're still assuming the patent system has merit. It does not.
Without it we would all be shitting in wooden buckets in front of open hearths.
Nope. Not at all. IP laws interfere with technological progress. Their purpose is to enrich lawyers and megacorporations, not to protect the "little guy." In contrast to the stagnation we see in most of the corporate world, including the music industry, consider the difference in industries that do not have IP protections.
That thumbnail looks too much like a TED type talk for me to click on it. which industries do not have IP protection?
It is a TED talk, and don't complain about the source of information. The subject is the fashion industry, where aside from trademark-type protections, there is no IP coverage. Clothing patterns are not subject to IP law.
It's less the source than the format, I just can't watch another one.
so aside from the FBI raiding anyone violating their intellectual property there is no IP coverage? That seems like an industry entirely dependent on IP protection. Their whole thing is their brand, something which would be worthless without protection from knockoffs.