Todd A. Jacobs | Pragmatic Cybersecurity<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/copyrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyrights</span></a> were never intended to “prevent people from stealing” or create perpetual ownership. It was intended to incentivize inventions that served the public good by providing inventors with a limited window of exclusivity as a reward for developing a concrete implementation of something innovative before it became freely available to the creative commons. It has <em>become</em> a toll-gate and a means of profiteering, but rewarding contributions to the commons was the real reason that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/intellectual_property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectual_property</span></a> laws were created.</p><p>A short-term limited monopoly to encourage innovation is not the same thing as long-term stifling of competition. Innovation should be encouraged, but patents and copyrights today encourage <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/patent_trolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patent_trolling</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/submarine_patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>submarine_patents</span></a>, create long-term barriers to entry, and impoverish the commons in ways that are rarely "short-term" or "limited."</p><p>1/ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff/113929932822398812" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@eff/113929932</span><span class="invisible">822398812</span></a><br>2/ <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/todd-a-jacobs_so-theres-this-totally-scientific-method-activity-7291532656419221504-s67x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/todd-a-jaco</span><span class="invisible">bs_so-theres-this-totally-scientific-method-activity-7291532656419221504-s67x</span></a></p>