Read Chapter 3 "Against Intellectual Property" of the Brian Martin's book.
Write a blog review (especially, comment on his strategies for change
When I was reading the material I was widely surprised about the patent systems, that allow patents are given to organic forms found in Third World and they have to actually pay for the use.
I was amazed about the examples of patenting information such as patenting epigrams, basketball moves, choreography steps, www links which have made me thought that intellectual property has gone far from it's original aim to promote creation and ideas. Brian Martin describes interestingly describes the ineguality of the intellectual property that is helping more richer and powerful people.
Author is offering an alternative to intellectual property as straightforward means that ideas are available for anyone who wants to. Good example is language that everybody are using and scientific ideas.
There is quite nothing to do agains plagiarism in Internet times, as everyone can get access to different materials and present it as their own. Plagiarism is only protected by copyright and it's quite hard to prove.
Author interestingly offers a solution to reorganize economic system for writers who are living on royalities. He thinks that they should also recieve govermental salary as scientist do. That would reduce income of famous artist, but also would increase economic resources relased and more money for creators. I think author is right, but this system is rather too strong too change in mean time. This change has to become slowly starting from example writers and music. All this means equality in incomes and also equality in outcomes and gets away the possibility to gain power by exploiting others.
Strategies for change
People must understand that the greater value for example gene information is for the greater good and this change of thinking must come. The cost of holding intellectual property is very high and there needs to be understandment how much it all costs to reduce these costs and create more equal system. I like the idea that to fight for reducing the patentrally there should be a kind of organization who is rallying all different patents to make the system collapse for greater good. I really like the idea to have a shareright possibility to software, that if you want to use a piece of software you have to share this first. The idea that intellectual work is not just one persons effort, but also society is playing a great role for the outcome. There is not available totally original idea, that is not influenced by some earlier information. Sharing information for greater human good is one good way to have more power into creation and productivity.
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