Well, you forget the company gives the individual Branding rights, resources, distribution networks and clout the individual would not afford on his own. How many people have great ideas but cant get them to fly? Not all Big companies are as evil as we like to think of them. If the individuals could do without the companies( through contracts that strip them of rights) why dont they just go for it alone? On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmmmmmm, never thought of it that way. But if an individual obtained a patent to prevent a big player from muzzling him out, does that justify patents?
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
The myth of big pharma spending billions on research, hence the need to
protect their legitimate investments by hook is crook is... just a myth.
See Robin D. Gross,
“One of the most common misunderstandings regarding intellectual property rights, particularly copyright, is that the actual creators are the main beneficiaries of the grant. In reality, it is the large companies that employ creators and then strip them of their copyright through contracts who actually benefit from the grant society intended as a reward for authors.
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