I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
People have to respect intellectual property.
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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