[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[Yan King Yin]

From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at strout.net>

>>Shall we start patenting uploading and trade the
>>resulting IP securities publicly, and also involve
>>the pharmaceutical industries into the loop? They
>>are directly involved in proteomics and bioassays
>>and therefore should be strictly instrumental in
>>building the neurochemical database.
>
>This is ridiculous.  We have nothing to patent.  We need about five 
>decades of pure research before will have anything directly connected 
>to uploading anyway.

5 or 8 decades, did you do the calculations? Give
us at least some basis for that estimation.

I think the best way to predict the future is to
invent it.

50 years' time-to-market doesn't really preclude
the possibility of securitization. It actually
makes things go smoother, even accelerate it,
whereas if we don't do it the pie will be grabbed
by the most aggressive people or companies in the
future. That will be a more chaotic outcome where
original contributors would not be rewarded much.

YKY


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