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Truly innovative ideas I believe are the productive property of the inventor. A balance needs to be struck between patents and IP, royalties to the creator, and then eventually becoming public property. Without a balance, inventors will obfuscate true inventions and the ideas will die with them.

Jeff Swann 2y ago

The open source world kinda suggests the opposite. I think people generally want to be understood & want to be recognized for their contributions.

It's mostly scammers claiming to be working on getting patents (having actually invented nothing) that work to obfuscate how things work.

And there is a whole industry currently built around buying patents simply to attack innovators.

Crowd funding (especially with zaps & zap splits) seems potentially useful for directly rewarding innovators. Though maybe it needs to be done via liquid or some sidechain/spiderchain that allows some sort of escrow or something in the event that an idea does turn out to be a scam, assuming it's necessary to conceal details until a certain amount is committed.

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Habanero 2y ago

If their are no trademarks or ways to register intellectual property how could you prove it is fraud... maybe the person experienced the exact sequence of ideas as Lyn and wrote them down? If ideas are not subject to rivalry as you claim this would be perfectly acceptable

Jeff Swann 2y ago

There are lots of ways to prove when you came up with or created a thing. That still doesn't prove you deserve any sort of reward, I have a thousand ideas for how to improve things, but until I implement some of them & produce something of value no one owes me anything. No one owes me a share of their work if they create something I thought of first.

Habanero 2y ago

You're a car guy... have you seen the movie Flash of Genius? It's about the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and his decade long battle with Ford MoCo. If inventors cannot claim ownership of their inventions what stops large corps from steamrolling independent creators and leaving them pennyless

Jeff Swann 2y ago

I don't know the details of that particular conflict, but notice how that story sells well enough to justify a multi-million dollar movie budget.

I don't think anyone is necessarily owed anything for an idea that they themselves can't implement. But it would make sense for companies to recognize & reward people who invent useful things. If someone can prove they were wronged by a large company people love to hate big companies in favor of some little guy. Making it easier to produce & sell components for cars & appliances would make it easier for people to independently get the sort of reward & recognition they deserve. Govt obstacles are the primary problem, more govt control & intervention really isn't the solution.