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Copyrights and Patents were never intended for use by corporations.

How can I claim this?! When both copyrights and patents were invented the longest 'corporate charter' a company could hold was 6 months in total.

Patents and Copyrights were designed to aid fledgling businesses in America compete against the behemoth industrial machines of England, Spain, France, and Europe in general. Companies in those countries were expansionist and simply bought out any serious competition.

Our country's founders didn't want that system taking hold of American economics, so invented protections against such things occurring here.

Remove the copyrights and patents from ANY multinational corporation. If it's not an American-ONLY based company -where money isn't shipped wholesale overseas- then they can no longer enjoy patents or copyrights in America.

POOF... problem solved.



> Our country's founders didn't want that system taking hold of American economics, so invented protections against such things occurring here.

They had zero IP and were building a country on stolen IP, of course they wanted to play fast and loose.

Now that the US has IP and others dont, they are doing what they do best, The World Police.


I think you and GP are agreeing. GP says that they want to return to that initial form of copyright because they do not agree with how World Police US is operating.




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