Intellectual property is dying as fast as privacy is
I find it funny when people who believe in intellectual property don't also believe in privacy. Unless extreme measures are taken, there will not be enough individual privacy to secure intellectual property. Ray Kurzweil raises a technological argument, and an argument based on the rate of technological change (evolution) being too fast for the laws to keep up with. My argument against intellectual property is also based on technology, but more on how it will be used to allow ideas to be so easily stolen that no one will be able to determine where an idea originated.
In a radically transparent society there isn't any intellectual property because everyone will see you thinking up something and copy you before you can even finish thinking about it. In a society with espionage like ours, as surveillance technology becomes ubiquitous and efficient it will become increasingly difficult to know whether anywhere is private and where any particular idea originated because information will possibly be shared in real time. When an idea is released to the world with no intellectual property then the incentive to apply espionage decreases because it's released to the world from the start.
You can have as much privacy as you are willing to pay for. Today privacy require stopping those who would invade it. It's always been the case except that the technology has improved.
The same with intellectual property. It's only your property as long as you can keep it. Passing laws won't help. Depending on the government never does. The government is SO inept that it lost money running a whorehouse and selling whisky in a state where both are legal.
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Bad news for the patent office really.
But what if some quantum computer can somehow reward your idea ( assuming you are the first to think about it) or split the reward if it is somehow shared by another being or bot?
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How would it determine who in the world was the first to think about it?
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Should not there be traces it can some how correlate? I hope there will be some tools in that technological age , may be...
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In theory technological progression can solve the issue, provided the idea is online. An advanced "cheetah", based on AI, will be able to detect the originator of an idea and publish a neutral "judgement" regarding disputes of this nature.
"The idea first appeared in the X site/forum/platform, by user Y, with time stamp ZZ:ZZ".
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this is clearly a big issue and problem !! I, d like to thank @dana-edwards for posing as ever the good questions here !! One of our most valuable assets for thought provoking posts in my opinion on the Steemit platform of exchange.
Idea,s are yours until you expose them to others no? So if you post an idea on the internet or even upload a painting or music piece to the cloud for " safe storage " you have already exposed your idea and sadly i feel you risk to lose it !! The best and only way of keeping true and brilliant idea,s or creations is to keep them like your trezor wallet, offline in a draw or in your mind. But the day you chose to try and develop your idea,s and you wish to market it anywhere, the moment of risk clearly arises as you will be forced really to expose them to others " " Hell is the other,s !! " Jean Paul Sartre.
I think that plagiarism is an old concept which existed well before the internet technologies, but the internet greatly advanced the process and accelerated it to the point where your idea in a matter of hours could be taken on by somebody else thousands of miles away and with little hope of you ever proving to anyone that their creation is in fact yours .
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Ideas are made to share. Are you fucking serious when you say, "the laws can't keep up." The last thing we need in this country is more ridiculous laws. I get that stealing someone's ideas and making money off of it is fucked up, but when someone creates an idea, it is meant to be shared. Keeping ideas to yourself stunts the growth of humanity.
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And yet, if the blockchain underlies everything we do (as it eventually will), records will show who the original creator was, in every case.
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