Re: A thought about patents

[Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Salvador;

Yes, they are individuals, not companies. Individuals can not be
effectively controlled with patent or copyright.

> With the general crash of protection systems I think that the copyrights
> will be mainly driven in indirect way, by charging copyrights royaltties =
> to
> hardware products, telephone bills,..., some strong points of indirect wa=
> y
> are:

Indirect way does not work.

If major form of distribution is through uncontrolled copying on the
Internet, which can not be illeagal if royalities are charged, it is
impossible to know the fair share of the royalties for each copyrighted
material.

							Masataka Ohta