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Are Trade Secrets and Trademarks the Future?

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Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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It's becoming increasingly clear that the Internet's perfect copying machine makes copyright largely irrelevant today: once a copy is online somewhere, it's impossible to take it down everywhere. Could the arrival of digital 3D printers like the open source RepRap do the same for patents, by making it possible for anyone to download and print off analogue objects? With copyright and patents powerless, what might manufacturing companies turn to in order to differentiate themselves from counterfeit versions? How about trade secrets and trademarks?

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Bob_Robertson ·
Eliminating copyright/patent pushes the profits back from reproduction, the RIAA and MPAA for example, to the content creators who have the unalienable advantage of being "first to market".

Here's a discussion on that: http://rationalargumentator.com/issue232/issueofcopyright.ht...
djohnston ·
Yes, he does. Here's another pertinent section:

Quoting:Indeed, what is striking about so many patents today is that they reveal precisely *nothing*: they are either obvious, in which case they don't tell us anything we didn't already know, or else they are make such vague and general claims (even though patents aren't supposed to work like that) as to be useless for practical purposes.

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