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Owning Ideas Social Implications of Computers

Who is Elisha Gray?

Who is Antonio Meucci?

Inventions Aren’t Strokes of Genius The telephone, the electric light, the steam engine, all were researched in several labs at once, because the enabling technologies came into place and all working engineers knew it. So why do we issue patents? They’re a way to encourage engineers to work hard at perfecting new technology. Exceptions: Xerox, Velcro—nobody else was working on these.

US Constitution Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; [...]

Copyright History The earliest copyrights were granted to printers, not authors, and were part of licensing schemes meant to prevent the printing of seditious or irreligious material. In Europe, but not in the United States, the law distinguishes between –Economic rights to profit from the publication of a work, which can be assigned, e.g., to a publisher, and –Moral rights to protect the integrity and attribution of the work, which belong only to the author.

Copyright and Patent as Social Bargain “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries” (This is US, but other countries have similar history.) In other words, the purpose of copyright and patent is –to get ideas into the public domain eventually –to prevent the loss of technology through secrecy Compare with “real property” (land), which you own by right and can pass down to your descendants forever.

Copyright and Computers In an ideal “free” market, prices tend to fall to the marginal cost of making one more item. Digital storage enables unlimited, lossless copying at zero marginal cost. Copyright has always been a way to prevent the operation of market forces, in order to support artists. But now everyone is a potential publisher, not just companies with expensive duplication equipment.

Changing the Bargain? Some argue that the ease of digital copying and distribution make copyright obsolete, but in another sense the technology makes copyright more important than ever. Can we find other ways to support the creation of art without limiting copying? One such attempt was a fee added to the price of blank CDs. DMCA changes the bargain in the other direction, into an effective permanent “intellectual property” right.

Do Software Patents Hinder Progress? No: The patent system supports the enormous efforts required to build modern, internationalized, easy-to-use, extensively tested software systems. Yes: Patents last too long because the software development cycle is so much shorter than traditional manufacturing cycles; many patents have been granted for obvious ideas; the accumulation of thousands of obscure patents let big companies exclude competitors. Maybe the basic idea is okay but the details need work.