intellectual property

[illidanstr]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars

THIEVES splinting legs and stopping bleeding.

What gives them the right to use the same techniques that innovators pioneered?  What gives them the right to steal the hard-earned lifesaving methods inventors discovered?

The only unfortunate

Comments

[pointytilly]

Further reasons I would never last in a professional field: what do you MEAN licensing everything I touch an equivalent of attribution-sharealike is bad?

Also, ew. I always want to point to things like this when people insist all copyright/patent law is really for the good of the common man/artist/etc.

[illidanstr]

Many of those people object on an ideological basis and would not care:

The person who owns IP has a moral entitlement to stop other people from doing/saying certain things.

Therefore, other people do not deserve anything that would be a result of those actions because those actions represent theft.

It is great, great lulz to me.