Tangled in Legal
Dec 2009
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The (business) world is looking for protection of ideas: patents, copyright, trade marks, licenses, rights management — legal instruments pretending to preserve the opportunity of exploitation to the original inventor, author, creator, giving them the opportunity to sue anybody taking — stealing! — intellectual property and turning it profitably into a business.
Is that how the world, how business works? In this opinion peace I propose that copyright owners too often and too easily get tangled in the prospects of easy legal protection, spending time, money and energy on something that is most probably less efficient than any attempt at selling the stuff themselves.
Due to be out in 2010.