The End of Copyright, Trademark, and Patent Law? Will They Cease to Exist in a Few Years?
New technologies are making copyright law and manufacturing as we know it obsolete. The world is on the precipice of a giant change and many people don't see it coming yet. Very soon life as you know it will be very different.
Also I share a relevant clip from my travels to Bangkok, Thailand.
Thank you for making this video. Not only was it fascinating to see that mall in Bangkok, but you made lots of really good points.
I have to agree that people just do not care about copyright laws-- I for one think they are useless. When a copyright is upheld by the courts, those who have mainly been struck are the average worker of the world-- that is my opinion,but there may be facts to back that up, too. Every so often the courts get a hold of a Kim Dotcom, but that has been far less often than it has been a mom, grandma, or young adult that was penalized tens of thousands of dollars. What good did the penalizing do other than scare a few people? If penalizing the average person actually worked P2P would have vanished long ago.
Holding a copyright on academic papers and ideas, I believe, stunts academic growth, which was also a view that was held by Reddit founder Aaron Swartz. I see it as sharing and building upon the ideas of others towards a better outcome, or that is how I would like to at least think about it. Instead the world is bent around money making and power. We are holding ourselves back because we want to hold on to the intellectual rights that we have worked on, but to get to that end one had to have used the ideas of others to reach that end. Sure lots of hard work went in to research, studies, test, investments, and possible trials. Seriously though, if the end goal was to further a potential for the betterment of society why attach a chain to it? By putting it under a copy right you have basically just tried to stymie any possible growth that could have come from your own work.
Thanks for the insightful thoughts. Being an author and videographer I have defiantly had people skim off my work. It is frustrating , someone copied my documentary on small farming I made and stuck it back up on YouTube. He skimmed about 1/4 million views from me which cost me a few thousand dollars. I don't want to use copyright law to force them to quit, basically a bunch of my fans swarmed his channel and he took it down. Its about the best solution I got, I wish there was better ones. I publish all my stuff without copyright protection because i know folks will take it anyway. I just try and keeping putting out fresh content faster then they can take it and use it. But I think sometime in the very near future when 3D printers can make anything you want, money won't be so important and we will be sharing ideas just for the betterment of mankind.
I agree with you, we should all share ideas and work together to create better outcomes, but how can idea people do that and still be able to feed their families? Starving artists is a real thing in our world, yet it takes time and reaearch and education to cultivate these ideas and form plans. It takes as many hours as a hard labor job, but the result is not tangible and can be easily shared for free. So how do we solve that first to give peoole the freedom to work on their ideas?
I hear you , I am a starving artist too. I guess we just have to be the first to market with our stuff and use speed to outpace the copycats.