tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post9177422863616289477..comments2023-10-31T05:07:19.353-04:00Comments on Delenda est Carthago: Secrets of SuccessDr. Φhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-37120811164133385702011-09-05T17:54:11.237-04:002011-09-05T17:54:11.237-04:00They've just gone from being a network of smal...They've just gone from being a network of small shopkeepers to the heads of all the international banks and Fed Reserve. Just more insulated from the resentment of the locals, that's all.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023125641719686613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-32574233182129724162011-09-05T14:55:12.934-04:002011-09-05T14:55:12.934-04:00@Professor Hale
The ridiculous length of copyright...@Professor Hale<br />The ridiculous length of copyright versus patents has always bugged me. A life saving drug (to use a clichéd example) receives shorter protection than the song "Happy Birthday" which remains protected in the United States until 2030.<br /><br />The "property" of "intellectual property" is a bit of a misnomer as patents and copyrights are temporary monopoly privileges granted by the government. The use of the "property" designation is no doubt part of the apparent aim to make copyrights perpetual (or, perhaps, infinity minus one day to comply with the US Constitution's "for a limited time" clause).<br /><br />BTW: My view is that equalization of copyrights and patents should be achieved by shortening the copyright period and lot lengthening the patent period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-6387932904491325522011-09-05T12:27:10.126-04:002011-09-05T12:27:10.126-04:00PH,
I guess it is so because it doesn't matt...PH, <br /><br />I guess it is so because it doesn't matter. If such so-called IP actually mattered in the big scheme of things--other than as a vehicle to make money in perpetuity via residuals--then there would be legislation to limit the patent/TM/royalties too.<br /><br />Phi, <br /><br />I just finished reading Gibbons' Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. In it, he mentions that the Jews then were as insular and conspicuous and as prickly a minority as they were in ante-bellum Germany...thus bearing some causal responsibility for the ill will dispensed to them by their exasperated Roman rulers.<br /><br />Didn't help that they would riot and revolt at the drop of a hat. According to Gibbon, Judea was not a province one wanted to be governor of, for just that reason.<br /><br />Kinda puts Pilate's appeasement of the Jewish mob in the Gospels in perspective.Elusive Wapitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825547465295622621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-59189685922654555802011-09-05T11:10:43.525-04:002011-09-05T11:10:43.525-04:00I find it amusing that a patent for something new ...I find it amusing that a patent for something new and creative that improves human life for millions of people is good for 7 years, but the property rights for old movies, music and the speeches of MLK are protected long after the deaths of those people who created it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com