Buying patents from patent holders only perpetuates an immoral system and gives it legitimacy.
Instead, the money should be going to abolish patents.
Topic: Crowd Sourced Patent Liberation Charity (Read 1005 times)
OK IP then not patents
Most of your examples are not even patents.
I don't really give to charity much as I hate the thought that 50% of my donation will be wasted on admin etc. I also don't believe that the charities have the best strategy and in some cases think they do more harm than good.
My main interests are tech, finance and politics and I like thinking about how to improve the world.
Most people including myself believe that technological progress is a good thing.
The profit motive accelerates inovation and patents/copywrite allow people to protect their ideas and therefore profit from them, This is good in the sense that it encourages inovation but bad in that only one company will use this new inovation.
So to abolish patents and intellectual property rights as some wish for would kill the financial motive to innovate.
But keeping patents in place also restricts inovation by non patent holders.
So the answer is a charity that buys important patents off patent holders so that there is no longer a patent.
This charity could list different patents and the estimated price of liberating each one specifically and people could donate the ones that they thought were the most important to the world.
examples:
expensive college textbooks
expensive cancer drugs
H.264 (video codec)
heinz baked beans
key solar panel patents
ios features
your favorite song
your favorite drink
Bitcoin would be a perfect way to crowd fund these patent liberations.
If anyone wants to steal this idea please do and let me know.
Send me a coin please I'm unemployed: 1CpaPf9Yxq1BHzuD2wVAWATHAQonuGbqzK
My main interests are tech, finance and politics and I like thinking about how to improve the world.
Most people including myself believe that technological progress is a good thing.
The profit motive accelerates inovation and patents/copywrite allow people to protect their ideas and therefore profit from them, This is good in the sense that it encourages inovation but bad in that only one company will use this new inovation.
So to abolish patents and intellectual property rights as some wish for would kill the financial motive to innovate.
But keeping patents in place also restricts inovation by non patent holders.
So the answer is a charity that buys important patents off patent holders so that there is no longer a patent.
This charity could list different patents and the estimated price of liberating each one specifically and people could donate the ones that they thought were the most important to the world.
examples:
expensive college textbooks
expensive cancer drugs
H.264 (video codec)
heinz baked beans
key solar panel patents
ios features
your favorite song
your favorite drink
Bitcoin would be a perfect way to crowd fund these patent liberations.
If anyone wants to steal this idea please do and let me know.
Send me a coin please I'm unemployed: 1CpaPf9Yxq1BHzuD2wVAWATHAQonuGbqzK
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