industrial copyright

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> Someone said the requirement to publish a monopoly is basically a bug, but
> it is presented as a feature.

Indeed the publishing requirement has serious disadvantages:

* It pushes up the price of obtaining the monopoly 
* A high-price monopoly is worthwhile only if it is broad
* the natural short-term low-price monopoly associated with business 
  secrets is disrupted: people are brought under pressure to rush to the 
  registry.

I have tried to collect some thoughts on what a future integrated system
of "IP" might look like at

        http://kwiki.ffii.org/IndpropEn

I hope this can be a major subject of our november conference

        http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/test/

which we are preparing now.