ruminations about architecture and design

Saturday, August 25, 2012

apple v samsung

And this too shall pass. As far as I know, I don't own products from either company at the moment, but I am worried that Apple's victory in their patent suit against Samsung will have a chilling effect on creative product development. Towers of Ilium cares little for patents and copyrights. A creative endeavor will ultimately become public domain, and the sooner the better. An entrepreneur or inventor, with some prudent planning, can reap large rewards from an original idea, but I do not think that these rewards should be transferable or subject to a nearly unlimited lifespan. Current efforts to apply personhood copyrights to dead celebrities is the most sickening example of this trend. When you die, your water belongs to the tribe. So say we all.

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