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hi this is mr. Avant this video looks at the pros and cons of protecting intellectual property so we're down here in the specification and we defined intellectual property in the previous video as the ideas and concepts that are generated by an organization now this might include new products and product new products or product innovations might mean you processes a new production processes new ways of doing things that improve the quality of products or we could be process innovations or it could be creative ideas such as marketing ideas and artistic creations like books music and images etc so this image right here I quite like because you've got the guy with his idea running away from the big end and steal it and that's what intellectual property is and we looked in the last video at the three different methods of protecting intellectual property getting a patent getting a trademark and copyright as well and it's important you know the differences between those things are what they protect so just in general though it's worth knowing the pros and cons of protecting intellectual property protecting your ideas so what the pros of doing it well it encourages businesses to innovate as original ideas are going to be more difficult to copy essentially protecting intellectual property and the ability to protect intellectual property is a motivation for businesses to spend lots of money on research and design etc without intellectual property if I could just come along and steal somebody's idea why are they going to invest a lot of money in trying to come up with that original idea okay the patent can be sold or rented out as a source of income so if I come up with this great idea for a product and if identifies to do so so now I can protect it I can then gain a patent and I can rent that out and it can become a source of income for my company or we can even sell that Payton if I decide that I can't do in thing useful with it you know maybe I'm not big enough company to fully utilize the idea and I may be able to sell it to a bigger company and that's the source of income for me and I've got at least then even though I'm not using the idea I've got paid for having the idea and I've turned that idea into count some kind of monetary reward and patent lead to a degree of monopoly power as well I talked in the last video about how they grant the holder of the patent which can be on a product and a process but of twenty years where they're the only people who can produce that product who use that process so this is seen as a reward for risk-taking monopoly power is associated with the ability to charge high prices because people can't copy them it's particularly important in some industries particularly things like pharmaceuticals and other high-tech industries where lots of people are innovating if you come up with an idea you want to make sure that you can protect it Pharmaceuticals it really key industry in terms of research and development and the use of patent because it can take up to 20 years to come up with a design with a new drug that you know maybe let's say it's fighting cancer and if unless we can protect that by Payton everyone else is going to copy it and we don't get any of the reward for the massive investment that we've put into developing that product and they can benefit for the industry and society as a whole so you know if we for example with pharmaceuticals you know the obvious benefits to society if someone comes up with the cure for cancer that the health of the that country that the world even will improve so you know and on a different note maybe with a less important product care we can simply increase our export revenue because we're coming up with these we're incentive is come up with these really good product and as a country we can start to export more so intellectual property and protecting intellectual property can be beneficial for the economy as a whole however there are some cons to protecting intellectual property the patenting process is complex and time-consuming you've got to show that it's your original idea you've got submit designs and once you've done that actually even if the copied a patent is issued it can be difficult to prove that somebody else is actually taking your design what if another company releases a similar but different feature for example or a a feature that does the same thing in but it uses a slightly different way of getting there we see this all the time in the mobile phone industry and if you have a look at Apple and Samsung suing each other there's lots of different ways in which there's they're suing each other Apple saying well this is our idea with we've come up with this encounter silly and it's really quite interesting how those organizations are competing and in doing that finally monopolies are uncompetitive and exploit consumers there's an ethical argument ok so let's just take that drugs argument Pharmaceuticals 1 let's say that someone does release a cure for cancer and they get patient Adan that and that idea is protected to 20 years well that means that that company can charge really high prices for these drugs and that might exclude poorer people for example from issuing it or in the UK we have the NHS you buy cancer protecting drugs or Kenton cancer treatment and that's a massive cost to society if we don't have competition in that market so it's a very complex issue protecting intellectual property there aren't any easy answers to it but you need to be aware of the pros and cons of businesses being able to protect their intellectual property
Thanks for your comment Keisha Gelbart, have a nice day.
- Cruz Widgeon, Staff Member
and authorize downloading and using for any other purpose is not allowed how about you don't tell me what I can and can't do with my propertytik-tok is one of the most valuable startups in existence overtaking uber at seventy six billion dollars that's three times as much as SpaceX Elon Musk's companies set out to colonize nearby space what is tick-tocks business model people creating and sharing short videos riddled with copyrighted music pewdiepie has been the most subscribed to independent youtube channel for five years and is making billions and millions every year his secret sauce using other people's content and reacting to it in fact almost every successful creator on the platform has made profit off of copyrighted material authored by someone else it's no different if you go to Facebook Instagram or Twitter everything's at copying the copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy the success of the internet economy is based on copying information if you are connected to the Internet it's almost certain you have violated a copyright law in your country knowingly or not copying is the fundamental requirement for computers to function computer networks and the internet itself at their core depend on copying information from one device to another copying is the very nature of existence cells continuously reproduce to create and spread new life some organisms even borrow and share one another's genetic information to make new and improved copies of older living organisms other social structures as human species has always been based on copying we've evolved because we freely copy it's the first human to make a hand tool we followed the first man out of the caves and built first huts there were no patents on wheel agriculture domestication or printing press from generation to generation we relied on sharing copying and improving upon information in songs poems stories and tales we thrived because there were no restrictions on passing information from one person to another but what's natural is not always what makes it into law with strict copyright and patent laws implemented across the developed world natural exchange of information has been banned in favor of giving authors exclusive rights to copy and protect their works but copyright is unlike any other right it gives the class of authors supreme position over the rest of the society while a trading everyone else as criminals when they want to exercise their free speech and property rights that a full extend copyright is the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute someone's work it's the right to make copies of a protected work hence copied right patents are government protections on improvements and inventions and devices and processes at least that's on paper in reality copyrights and patents are monopolies monopolies where only the right holders are allowed to profit from the resources it's a monopoly because the more copyrights and patents the government protects the more restricted people are in exercising their property rights imagine you and your neighbor both mine stone on your respective properties then your neighbor decides to build a sculpture out of a stone in the world of copyright the very pattern of this culture is now protected under the law that means no one else is allowed to take full use of their property and make the same sculpture of their own since you also own stone you are allowed to do everything except for making that sculpture if your neighbor was to start the mining stone with a pickaxe they could patent this new production method and for 20 years you would not be allowed to use a pickaxe to mine your stone on your property the more people make copyrighted works from their stone less and less property rights you can exercise with your stone the more patents are registered the more restricted you are in what you can and can't do on your property that's because the logic behind copyright and patent laws treats ideas as scarce resources when in reality they are infinitely abundant copyright along with other forms of intellectual monopolies like patents trademarks and trade secrets is presented as a form of property rights but property rights function completely differently and were put in place for starkly contrasting reasons the justification of private property is the scarcity of resources there is a finite amount of land food wood minerals goods products and labor because of scarcity people can resolve the competition over scarce resources with conflict conflict breathes catastrophe if tangible things were abandoned there will be no conflict over them and there will be no need for property rights if somebody took your car you wouldn't worry about it because you could just get another one by magically snapping your fingers once possession of an abundant resource doesn't deprive anyone else of possessing it copyright laws are not protecting scarce tangible goods they are protecting intangible ideas that are abundant copyright law is protecting the idea of a particular sculpture but property rights protect the materials the sculpture is made off if you were to violate an author's copyright you would make a copy of their idea that dated and allowed to be made if you were to violate their property rights you would take their physical sculpture by force without their consent in both cases you would be accused of theft and state would use force to coerce you but only one of them would actually deprive them of their property the language of copyright advocacy is intentionally misleading the purpose is to hide the fact it has nothing to do with property rights and that they are actually government backed monopolies that grant authors a certain degree of partial ownership over everyone else's physical property the moral and ethical grounds for property rights is to prevent conflict and create a just system of redistribution of scarce resources what's the justification for copyright well the answer is more philosophical than copyright advocates are willing to admit actually it's entirely philosophical there is a utilitarian view that says copyright laws incentivize authors to create work and make profit and profit creates wealth and wealth benefits society but there is no clear evidence whether copyright actually stimulates more wealth creation many small creators are actually offering their works for free and free from royalties or copyright altogether like the author of the background music you're currently listening to copying is free advertising the ones enforcing their copyrights the most are actually big studios record labels and publishers not the authors themselves most copyrighted works never entered the public domain so the general public cannot profit from authors creations if anything copyright laws concentrate wealth within the class of right holders without copyright laws software engineers and authors could and probably would be even more creative and innovative as they would have to respond to competition instead of enjoying government protection as monopolies going back to the stone and sculpture example if there weren't intellec
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- Cruz Widgeon
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