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Nice. IP is one thing that has ruined many things. Unless you are WIPO and Oracle Fan.

All current AI companies are closed. What benefit?

Most things from Uni are published openly.

BTW, did people in US pay royalty to China for inventing paper?

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Yeah, people forget that IP is a social construct, and there's no reason a different society can't simply have different constructs. Open source / Free software is a different social construct too; and Stallman would have us live in a world where nobody is enriching themselves with proprietary technology they exert unfair control over.

Problem has always been ensuring that people who have brilliant ideas get appropriately rewarded for their contribution to humanity - but not disproportionately.

> ensuring that people who have brilliant ideas get appropriately rewarded

This doesn't happen anymore, and the sooner the contributors to our industry learn this, the sooner we can start fixing it.

Taking your China comment in good faith: the copyright term on paper has long elapsed anyway, even if there's Mickey Mouse drawn on the paper in question.

What would china consider to be the appropriate length of compensation though?

the claim is that chinese people in china must follow US law. presumably US people in US should also follow chinese law.

When was paper invented again?

Also does China publish it's companies IP publicly or is it just a one-sided relationship?

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