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According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn't just a moment of questionable legal theory. It's an indictment of American patent law.

"Broadly, I don't disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents," said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. "They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system."

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I do believe that.

Intellectual property leads to all kind of unfairness. It should be normalized that artist would be paid for the work done, nor for property ownership.

This adds to some other believes about people shouldn't be paid just for "property ownership".

And once the art is done and released is part of human race, that does include terrible human beings, but it also includes absolutely everyone else.

Some other argument for this... For instance, being an artist is one of the jobs with biggest pay disparity, from the poorest of them all to some of the richest. That's a normal output of basing income on property ownership, things snowball once you have enough property.

I don't think there's a way to make private property (physical or intelectual) work in a fair economy. And remember, private property is not the same as personal property, just in case.

I do think the world of art would get much better and more diverse if we got rid of property as a way to measure revenue and put work in the center as a way to measure how much we should pay each artist.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

You live in a dream world. Why would I release my music to the public when there are people who will make a living stealing it, putting their name on it, and selling 1000x more than I ever could because they already have name recognition? And those people WILL exist for every form of creative content.

Artists need some sort of mechanism to protect them from exploitation that is inherent to capitalism

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah... victory belonging to the person with the widest reach and deepest pockets rather than the originator of the material/idea is one way to ensure that all creatives become paupers. This is one of those many on-paper ideas that, without the upheaval of pretty much every other established human social structure, would be awful in practice.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Because you will be paid for it?

In the current world I could torrent your music and you'll be "losing money" and will end up investing more work in anti-piracy and advertisement than in making good music.

If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that's not based on private property and the means of capitalism, it would mean that you could 100% focus on making music and everyone could enjoy the things you made. You couldn't care less if I torrent your music in this new world. Hell, music would probably be mainly distributed by torrenting.

Everyone will be happy, except investors and people thriving of this inefficient and unfair system.

Meanwhile, I'll be seeding.

[–] AgentRocket@feddit.org 1 points 7 minutes ago

If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that's not based on private property

And how would that system decide how much you get paid and where would the money for that payment come from? How do you make sure a carefully crafted piece of music, that brings happiness to millions of people gets paid fairly compared to someone just putting together a song in 5 minutes by pressing random notes on the keyboard?