tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post3888780662043845086..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: It's Getting Worse: Trump to Unload on ChinaRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87213159513177308752018-03-14T16:33:16.087-04:002018-03-14T16:33:16.087-04:00PH,
Your example is one involving contract law, ...PH, <br /><br />Your example is one involving contract law, not IP law. What the pro-IP side is arguing is that if you show others a better mousetrap, you then get to pull guns on them and stop them from building it. <br /><br />Their fundamental argument is that to be first is to be only; that to originate an activity is to own an activity. More fundamentally, they confuse pattern with matterJohn Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826480541002960583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-80446442462407334762018-03-14T13:29:17.373-04:002018-03-14T13:29:17.373-04:00PH, the issue with IP legislation is that it is no...PH, the issue with IP legislation is that it is not aimed at voluntary agreements between two individuals as in your example. It involves using the force of the state to prevent a third party from using his own private property (his body or objects he owns) to make use of information or data that someone else has developed. There is no theft in that third party doing this, because the party whoThe NAPsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631781625841157567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-53264139565766319482018-03-14T13:07:21.916-04:002018-03-14T13:07:21.916-04:00@PH
While such an agreement is not unimaginable, ...@PH<br /><br />While such an agreement is not unimaginable, it couldn’t bind 3rd parties.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11968441656658845395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-81386364534871624002018-03-14T12:57:00.850-04:002018-03-14T12:57:00.850-04:00Suppose I sell you a manufacturing secret with the...Suppose I sell you a manufacturing secret with the condition you may not sell or reveal it.PHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505462828969815943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-69877009177538821012018-03-14T09:13:46.430-04:002018-03-14T09:13:46.430-04:00Sorry, NAPster, you do not get an answer to that q...Sorry, NAPster, you do not get an answer to that question. You can ask it all day and in many rhetorical forms, but the pro-IP thinkers will never answer it. That imitation is theft is the baserock of their entire argument. Since that is obviously false, their only option is to never, ever defend it but rather to just keep assuming and implying it. John Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826480541002960583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-72901190426865669422018-03-14T00:12:08.682-04:002018-03-14T00:12:08.682-04:00How can you have "IP theft"? When someo...How can you have "IP theft"? When someone copies your "intellectual property" you still have it.The NAPsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631781625841157567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-54923938015439959142018-03-13T19:13:44.592-04:002018-03-13T19:13:44.592-04:00Well, technically he’s going to unload on American...Well, technically he’s going to unload on Americans who buy things from China.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11968441656658845395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-19124715171711088132018-03-13T19:03:00.297-04:002018-03-13T19:03:00.297-04:00Suppose you want to manufacture in China. Their ru...Suppose you want to manufacture in China. Their rule is you must partner with a State owned firm and it must have 51% control. After a few years that firm has all the IP, exits the arrangement, no other firm will step in to replace it, and since you don't have a local partner you have to close down your investment. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com