[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[Yan King Yin]

>cat13 at illrepute.org writes:
>
>> It's also perfectly feasible to prevent anyone else from developing Y
>> by refusing to license it.  If Y is vital to uploading, then no one but
>> you can allow uploading to go forward - and what happens if you go under?
>> Important advances are lost forever under the present patent system all
>> the time.

It'd be very reasonable if we don't patent the data
obtained, but only the techniques being invented.
The also prevents the consortium from charging an
unreasonable price because other competitors will
be so pissed that they'll invent newer techniques
to get at the data and thus offer a cheaper
alternative to the market...



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