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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. How does it work if companies can't get profits from huge R&D and media investments?

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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 10:04 AM

Mar 2025

Who is going to invest in a record company to distribute some new Beyonce album if it could be legally copied and shared instantly without payment?

Why spend $5 billion to develop a better self-driving tech if it can be legally copied and used with out payment?

Excerpt doesn't say how it would work.

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Patents and the Abundance Agenda [View all] Passages Mar 2025 OP

How does it work if companies can't get profits from huge R&D and media investments? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #1

I'm not reading where they can't get profits. Fairness is the approach and it is Passages Mar 2025 #2

Thanks, but I'm unlikely to read it unless I run across a persuasive argument for the agenda elsewhere Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #3

Baker is not advocating erasing patents and or copyrights. Passages Mar 2025 #4