-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/10/10 09:45 , mP wrote: > Today patents are only important because the USA is the leading > economy in the world, and places without patent laws are either > small or unimportant. In a few years before the turn of the decade, > China will pass and greatly surpass the USA economy, and funnily > enough China does not care about copyright or patents, because they > have lots to gain by stealing and nothing to lose if they respect > such formalities. In ten years things might be very different as > patents and copyright as concepts probably change direction or > might not even exist. > You're missing a term from the equation: that one can't maintain a leading position by copying others' stuff, so the percentage of original innovation from China will increase; and when it will be relevant, they will change their position. Making the situation even worse, since people can influence USA's or EU's governments, but not China's.
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