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RE: The End of Intellectual Property: On Imagination, Artificial Intelligence, and Procedural Generation
great post. the first person that i ever ran across, talking about how copyright and patent stifles innovation was Robert Heinlein. he was right. we, as humanity, will release ourselves from the silly notion of IP, or we will murder the singularity, and our future, in it's crib.
What? Where? Or did he express it in one of his books? I've read some but couldn't recall! Or did you literally ran across him? :D
in one of his books. i've been racking my brain, but have yet to remember. sorry. i'm following, if i remember, i'll let you know.
I've only read Stranger in Stangeland and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, don't think I recall specifically any commentaries on copyright / patent. But I think most science-fiction authors will recognize this.. afterall scifi usually make extremes out of situations, and a way to study, in words, how we are as individuals and a society.
i do know that Spider Robinson made it into a fictional scenario as an interview with Virginia Heinlein.