On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Phares Kariuki <
pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> “One of the most common misunderstandings regarding intellectual
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>> property rights, particularly copyright, is that the actual creators
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>> are the main beneficiaries of the grant. In reality, it is the large
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>> companies that employ creators and then strip them of their copyright
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>> through contracts who actually benefit from the grant society intended
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>> as a reward for authors.
>
> Through this premise, we should get rid of the concept of a corporation and
> share profit's equally with the employees. The problem I have with this is
> that, while working for corporation x, employee a used all off corporation
> x's resources, but want's to happily keep the spoils for themselves. When
> doing research and even in ordinary work, the employee will use vast
> resources to achieve his end, and the employee *willingly* signs over the
> gains of the research to them. We also forget the numerous times that an
> employee will come up with a "brilliant" idea, pitch them and management
> bears the loss, in that case, we don't go for a "loss sharing mechanism" in
> which the same employee can lose his retirement benefits do we? But said
> mistake can easily cost the shareholders tones of money. If you want the
> profit, be prepared to make the loss. We are only analyzing the cases where
> the employees actually succeed, forgetting that in many cases, the same
> employees cause tremendous losses.
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