A discussion of an IP bill in New Zealand from Beehive.govt.nz:
During its consideration of the bill, the committee received many submissions opposing the granting of patents for computer programs on the grounds it would stifle innovation and restrict competition.
It also considered that companies investing in inventions involving "embedded" computer programs should be able to obtain patent protection for these inventions.
The committee and the Minister accept this position.
Intellectual Property is often debated amongst libertarians. How do you feel about IP?
I'm w/ Jeff Tucker on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KSua3Nczjk
That debate was pretty messy and unstructured. The guys on the side of IP failed to satisfactorily (at least to me) explain why ownership can extend to immaterial things, which I think is really the crux of the debate.
Is it possible to own something which is not physical? How would you know?
All information must be represented physically, whether it's in your brain, or a performance, or ones and zeros on a hard drive. These physical things are owned by people. Intellectual Property claims that I, as an author of software, or music, or whatever, can tell people what they can and cannot do with their own property whenever it represents information that I created.
Just because I created information doesn't mean I have the right to exercise authority over how you use your property which happens to contain that information.
To me, IP is invariably at odds with regular, old-fashioned physical property. To compare unauthorized copying with theft is, I think, an egregiously misleading comparison.
I really like how this cartoon addresses the issue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1a5h64j8zg
I'm agin' it
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