In 2010 I will likely do some presentations regarding Intellectual Property (IP), innovation and entrepreneurship via Syntens, as part of a program thinking, speaking and writing about innovation and entrepreneurship. In the past days, a memo leaked out from the ACTA. Read the readable reflection by Corey Doctorow here.
So time to write some.
Copyright, Patents and innovation
Copyright and patents are often sold to be “stimulating innovation”. Via both patents and copyright, the publisher (not always the creator or inventor) protects their investments in both R&D, marketing and distribution by the right to sue anyone who issues copies of their work, or use the results of their research without paying for it.
There are counter voices as well. Here is an example from Australia, proposing to unlock IP. Another example is this article about the findings of a student simulating an online game of the patent system, PatentSim. A quote form the press release: “Their results suggest that a patent system underperforms a “commons,” in which no patent protection is available, on several important measures.”
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