Sure, the point is to legibilize and monetize (“protect”) the creation of valuable expressions and inventions. The fact that some of the motive is to make it visible enough to tax transactions around it is kind of irrelevant. I can’t think of a way to do that except by limiting the ability of others to copy/reuse them.
I don’t have a strong opinion on when or whether it’s a good mechanism for fostering innovation. I suspect there are better ways, but probably not enough better that we’ll find and implement them through the headwinds of inertia and currently-mostly-OK.
I DO have a strong opinion that we overgeneralize and apply the same rules and limits to very different types and scales of thing, and the current setting is too much in duration and coverage.
Sure, the point is to legibilize and monetize (“protect”) the creation of valuable expressions and inventions. The fact that some of the motive is to make it visible enough to tax transactions around it is kind of irrelevant. I can’t think of a way to do that except by limiting the ability of others to copy/reuse them.
I don’t have a strong opinion on when or whether it’s a good mechanism for fostering innovation. I suspect there are better ways, but probably not enough better that we’ll find and implement them through the headwinds of inertia and currently-mostly-OK.
I DO have a strong opinion that we overgeneralize and apply the same rules and limits to very different types and scales of thing, and the current setting is too much in duration and coverage.